SATA Hard Drive Installation

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Peter

Hello everyone,

I originally posted this in another thread which has now disappeared from my
newsreader (Outlook Express) so here goes once more. Sorry if some of you
can still see the original post.

I have installed a new SATA120gb Seagate Hard Drive (partitioned into 10gb
primary and the rest extended) alongside my 2 exisiting 40gb IDE drives.
After changing the relevant BIOS settings I managed to boot from it and
install Windows XP (along with pressing
F6 and installing the RAID driver when prompted).

Problem is - when I boot using this new drive, my two old ones cannot be
seen. (The two DVD drives on the secondary IDE channel are showing up fine).
However, if I change the BIOS back to how it was and boot up on my old
drive, the new SATA drive is there showing both partitions no problem.

I really wanted to have the new one as my main drive as it does seem to be
much faster (during windows xp installation it went down from 30 minutes
remaining to zero in about 10 minutes).

I suppose it doesn't really matter and I can live without it for a bit, but
the extra 80gb storage on my 2 old drives would have been nice.

So - what should the correct settings be in BIOS?
Is there anything I can do in Windows to make the IDE primary and secondary
drives visible?
What should the jumper settings be on the old drives - do they need changing
from master and slave?

I don't know what else to try.

System:
P4 2.6gb
Giga-byte GA-8IK1100
1gb PC3200
2 x 40gb HDD on IDE channel 1
DVD-RW and DVD-ROM both on 2nd IDE channel

Anything else please let me know.

Please reply to the group as this e-mail address is unusable due to spam

Thank you

Peter
 
Peter said:
So - what should the correct settings be in BIOS?
Is there anything I can do in Windows to make the IDE primary and secondary
drives visible?
What should the jumper settings be on the old drives - do they need changing
from master and slave?
Click to expand...

Have you tried setting SATA 1 / 2 mode to 'Enhanced'?

If you have the mode set to 'SATA only', your machine will ignore the
IDE-1 and IDE-2 channels will be ignored. If you have the mode set to
'Combined' then one IDE channel will be available, but one will be ignored.
 
Thanks Brad - A BIOS upgrade did the trick.
Thanks also to you Bob for your reply.
Up and running now.

Peter
 
I have a similar system that I built with a Giga-byte GA-8IK1100, a
P4-3.0 and originally a single Maxtor 160 GB SATA drive (8MB buffer)

I experienced an incredible number of spurious software errors (WinXP
Pro and the few programs I had tried to setup).

I tried to contact Gigabyte, but they took forever to respond so I
bought a regular Maxtor 160 GB IDE drive (8MB buffer) and installed
it. The computer still had some problems, but was better. As it turned
out the IDE drive was faulty, so I continued to play with the SATA
drive.

I finally discovered that the boot order was changing (Advanced bios
setup?). The internal boot device (whatever that is) was somehow
moving to the top of the boot priority, when a USB drive was plugged.

It appears to be necessary, for the SATA drive to be the primary boot
device. I never did figure out how to setup the system with the IDE
and SATA drives in the same box.

About this time Gigabyte finally came throught with a link to a bios
upgrade. Since then, I have added a 2nd SATA drive and experienced no
problems. The USB drive does not affect the boot order now.
 
Yes - I too thought that the boot order in the BIOS appeared to be changing
by itself, but I thought I must be imagining it.

Very strange!

Peter
 
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