"scanning IDE drives...." ?

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Rocky

At boot up with my P4C800-E Deluxe I get a message "scanning IDE drives
....." that lasts about 8 seconds before the boot continues - is this normal
and can it be made to go quicker?

In the BIOS I have designated the HD as the primary boot device.

Thanks.

Alistair
 
Rocky said:
At boot up with my P4C800-E Deluxe I get a message "scanning IDE drives
...." that lasts about 8 seconds before the boot continues - is this
normal and can it be made to go quicker?
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I'd suspect that the IDE channels are set to auto detect the device. You
could always select the actual type - such as none on the channels with
nothing on.

Ben
 
It sounds like you have a RAID controller function that you are not
using turned on.
 
Ben Pope said:
I'd suspect that the IDE channels are set to auto detect the device. You
could always select the actual type - such as none on the channels with
nothing on.
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Ben I built this PC myself, but I am still a learning, could you expand on
that a little for me please :o)

Alistair
 
Rocky said:
At boot up with my P4C800-E Deluxe I get a message "scanning IDE drives
...." that lasts about 8 seconds before the boot continues - is this normal
and can it be made to go quicker?

In the BIOS I have designated the HD as the primary boot device.

Thanks.

Alistair
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If your hard disk is not on the RAID or Promise controller, you can disable
the on-board RAID controller and this message won't be displayed. See
section 4 in the manual.
 
Rocky said:
Ben I built this PC myself, but I am still a learning, could you expand on
that a little for me please :o)
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I don't recall where in the BIOS, but you can set up your IDE Primary
Master, Primary Slave, Secondary Master and Secondary slave to none, auto,
etc.

Or, as already mentioned, it could be a different controller looking for
devices, in which case you could disable it in the BIOS (if you're not using
it) or disable the channels you are not using in the controler BIOS.

I'm not familiar with your board, so I can;t really go into further detail
without downloading it's manual.

Ben
 
Matt said:
If your hard disk is not on the RAID or Promise controller, you can disable
the on-board RAID controller and this message won't be displayed. See
section 4 in the manual.
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Okay I have read the section and checked the BIOS IDE Configuration section,
this is the current setting:

Enhanced Mode Support on : [S-ATA] (there is a P-ATA option in there)
Configure S-ATA as Raid : [No]

Should I change the [S-ATA] setting to [P-ATA] as I have no SATA or RAID on
this system?

Additionally I notice another message on bootup saying "No Fasttrack
Controller installed", I don't know what that means either :o(

Alistair
 
Rocky said:
Okay I have read the section and checked the BIOS IDE Configuration section,
this is the current setting:

Enhanced Mode Support on : [S-ATA] (there is a P-ATA option in there)
Configure S-ATA as Raid : [No]

Should I change the [S-ATA] setting to [P-ATA] as I have no SATA or RAID on
this system?
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I would try that, yes. If you screw up on these settings, all that can
happen is your system won't boot. Then you can just go back to what worked
before. There IS a setting in there that will allow a faster boot without
scanning the drives, if that is what you are after.

Additionally I notice another message on bootup saying "No Fasttrack
Controller installed", I don't know what that means either :o(
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If that comes up after the scan, and no drives are attached to the Promise
controller then it's normal. No drives on the controller means that no
controller driver or BIOS needs to be installed.
 
Matt said:
If your hard disk is not on the RAID or Promise controller, you can disable
the on-board RAID controller and this message won't be displayed. See
section 4 in the manual.
Click to expand...

Okay I have read the section and checked the BIOS IDE Configuration section,
this is the current setting:

Enhanced Mode Support on : [S-ATA] (there is a P-ATA option in there)
Configure S-ATA as Raid : [No]

Should I change the [S-ATA] setting to [P-ATA] as I have no SATA or RAID on
this system?
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<<snip>>

Stick with Enhanced Mode set to [S-ATA]. Someone has already discovered
that the other options for Enhanced Mode seem to cause the interfaces
to slow down, and the S-ATA setting is the one to use, whether there
is anything plugged in there or not.

In Compatible mode, you can select any one of the three settings,
as then they do the right thing.

HTH,
Paul
 
Rocky said:
At boot up with my P4C800-E Deluxe I get a message "scanning IDE drives
...." that lasts about 8 seconds before the boot continues - is this normal
and can it be made to go quicker?

In the BIOS I have designated the HD as the primary boot device.
Click to expand...

Okay I have resolved this and shaved a good 10 seconds of the boot up time,
so I'm posting it here for anybody that googles to try and solve this delay
on their own systems.

In the BIOS under the Advanced tab is the Onboard section. In there I found
the Promise Controller was Enabled, and set to SATA. I am not using SATA yet
so I disabled the Promise Controller, and viola, no more scanning IDE drives
at boot, and thus a faster boot up.
 
Okay I have resolved this and shaved a good 10 seconds of the boot up time,
so I'm posting it here for anybody that googles to try and solve this delay
on their own systems.

In the BIOS under the Advanced tab is the Onboard section. In there I found
the Promise Controller was Enabled, and set to SATA. I am not using SATA yet
so I disabled the Promise Controller, and viola, no more scanning IDE drives
at boot, and thus a faster boot up
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..
Pray tell, what BIOS R U running? I am on 1016 and even with the
Promise Controller disabled, my system STILL cks IDE drives and then
states bios not loaded...
 
Memphoman said:
Pray tell, what BIOS R U running? I am on 1016 and even with the
Promise Controller disabled, my system STILL cks IDE drives and then
states bios not loaded...
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I disabled the Promise controller right after I updated the BIOS to 1016
using the auto-update tool.
 
notritenoteri said:
IS it a silly question or a silly concern or a silly coment on the reply?
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Are they mutually exclusive or can I choose more than one?

I think it's fast becoming a silly thread...

:-p

Ben
 
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