SATA and PCI IDE card incompatable?

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I am having a strange problem with a SATA drive installation which has
resulted in my IDE Promise card no longer working. I am using an Intel P4
630 on an Intel D915PBL Board W/ 82801FR SATA/Raid Controller. Before I
installed the second SATA all was well. Now the System will not boot unless
I remove the drive plugged into the IDE Promise card. This MOBO only has one
IDE channel and I need this PCI IDE card to work with the removable drives
attached to this card. I have been trying for a week now to figure out what
might be causing this but nothing has worked. I have removed and reinstalled
the PCI card. I have tried a different slot. I have enabled RAID in BIOS
even though it is not needed as I am not on an array. I have tried every
possible configuration I can think of but I am missing something. Anyone
have any ideas or experience with this problem?

Thanks.

Cliff
 
When you turn on the pc does it say
Slave Drive: incompatibale
master drive: imcopatabale
 
gdevil said:
When you turn on the pc does it say
Slave Drive: incompatibale
master drive: imcopatabale
Click to expand...

It just hangs at the screen where you would press F2. Never gets any
further.
 
I have encountered problems similar to yours. When I added a Promise IDE
controller with a hard drive attached, the motherboard BIOS enumerate the
new Promise controller prior to the on-board controller, pushing the first
boot device to the one attached to the Promise.

In your BIOS (probably Advanced Features) you will have force the on-board
device to the front of the SCSI boot device listing.
Read the BIOS section of the manual for you motherboard to learn how to do
that.
 
Og said:
I have encountered problems similar to yours. When I added a Promise
IDE controller with a hard drive attached, the motherboard BIOS
enumerate the new Promise controller prior to the on-board
controller, pushing the first boot device to the one attached to the
Promise.
In your BIOS (probably Advanced Features) you will have force the
on-board device to the front of the SCSI boot device listing.
Read the BIOS section of the manual for you motherboard to learn how
to do that.
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Thanks, I will look for that although I have been in BOIS so much lately
that if I missed it I will be surprised. All was well with my System until I
decided to add Maxtor 300G SATA. I dicked around for days and finally
somehow got it to work with the Promise card but I have no idea what I did.I
then added another SATA only this time it was a Western Digital Raptor for
C: drive. Now I am back to where I can not longer find the Promise card
anywhere and if I try to boot with a drive attached to it I get lockup as
soon as I power it. No time to even get into BIOS. I will have to download
that BIOS manual as look it over.

Thanks for the tip.

Cliff
 
Og said:
I have encountered problems similar to yours. When I added a Promise
IDE controller with a hard drive attached, the motherboard BIOS
enumerate the new Promise controller prior to the on-board
controller, pushing the first boot device to the one attached to the
Promise.
In your BIOS (probably Advanced Features) you will have force the
on-board device to the front of the SCSI boot device listing.
Read the BIOS section of the manual for you motherboard to learn how
to do that.
Click to expand...

I am trying to find somewhere to locate a BIOS manual for this thing. Is it
possible that the Promise card is sharing an IRQ that is causing a conflict?
I noticed that it is on IRQ 19 along with the SATA RAID controller among
other things. Can I get these things to run on different IRQs somehow?
 
It is, indeed, possible that there is an IRQ conflict between the onboard
controller and the Promise controller.
Try a (some) different PCI slot(s).

My system has an on-board SATA RAID Array for Windows XP, a Promise SATA
RAID Array for data, a Promise IDE controller for a pair of CD-RW drives,
and the onboard IDE controller has CD and DVD drives attached, and a SCSI
card for my scanner.
It took me a week of monkeying around to get it all working together. Each
time I added a Controller to the mix, that new controller became the default
boot device until I changed settings in the BIOS.

The only problem I have with this setup is that I can not boot to Safe
Mode -- both F8 and F5 puts me into a "Select Boot Device" menu with five
drive options, but no "Safe" option.
 
Og said:
It is, indeed, possible that there is an IRQ conflict between the
onboard controller and the Promise controller.
Try a (some) different PCI slot(s).

My system has an on-board SATA RAID Array for Windows XP, a Promise
SATA RAID Array for data, a Promise IDE controller for a pair of
CD-RW drives, and the onboard IDE controller has CD and DVD drives
attached, and a SCSI card for my scanner.
It took me a week of monkeying around to get it all working together.
Each time I added a Controller to the mix, that new controller became
the default boot device until I changed settings in the BIOS.

The only problem I have with this setup is that I can not boot to Safe
Mode -- both F8 and F5 puts me into a "Select Boot Device" menu with
five drive options, but no "Safe" option.
Click to expand...
I solved the problem by switching PCI slots to the only other one I have I
swapped it with the PCI 550 Theatre TV/FM card. That is one thing about this
board. The PCIe card also takes out two slots by the size of it and it's
fan.

What mobo do you have that has all those onboard controlers?
 
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