IDE as a secondary to a SATA

[foolishone]

I have everything hooked up, computer boots perfectly to SATA but when I connected an IDE HD, disk management didn't recognize it. How do I get it to recognize the IDE?

Can't access from DOS, either.

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[ktkendall]

Does the BIOS recognize it when you power up and right after POST and memory count usually the very next thing is IDE device detection. If you aren't seeing it corectly detected there, which it sounds like you are not, then you'll need to:

1. Be sure it is cabled and jumpered correctly

2. Go into the BIOS and be sure the IDE controllers are enabled and the IDE port the drive is on is not disabled.

If thats all correct and the BIOS does detect it, You should see the drive in device manager, and disk management should have it, but you'll need to partition, then format it there in disk management to be able to use it..

[foolishone]

The BIOS check goes by so fast on load that I can't see if BIOS is seeing it. I will try the other option and see if I can see the BIOS screen.

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[glc]

You can go into bios setup, most modern bioses will list the available hard drives that it detects.

[foolishone]

The motherboard is an ABIT IC7 G Max II Advance, I think thats it.

In BIOS, IDE Channel 1 Master: None
IDE Channel 1 Slave: Raptor
IDE Channel 2 Master: Lite-On Drive, optical
IDE Channel 2 Slave: Another Lite-On

Raptor is SATA (MB has it naive). Why is it showing it on an IDE channel.

The hard drive that I am trying to find is a WD from a Dell, 40 GB. I think I have jumpered it in every setting upon both master and slave of the IDE1 channel. It has to be a setting in the BIOS.

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[ktkendall]

Enter your BIOS and actually get your cursor to that IDE channel1 Master and then enter and set it to auto..

[nicolaus corelius]

is this a new comp? which mobo is it?

[foolishone]

I have solved it. First I took out the IDE that was controlling the two LiteOn drives, which I knew worked perfectly. I then plugged in the IDE which had the HD on it. I made sure that I pressed it in firmly (that might have been my problem, in the first place). Jump it to master, didn't work, slave, same, and cable select which worked. I then hooked the IDE holding the LiteOn's back up in the other IDE and all was well.

Like I said before , stupidly, I don't think that the IDE connecter was seated properly. So for future people that will hopefully search for this thread in the future, instead of posting a new one:

1. Make sure BIOS knows about the drive and looks for it.
2. Make sure the IDE cable is firmly in place both on the MB and HD.
3. Play with the jumpers on the HD.
4. Play with the HD on the IDE cable, as far as the Master / Slave goes.

If there are settings that should be set then please post them. My HD worked when set on the first IDE connector on the cable and jumpered for cable select.

<B>nicolaus corelius:</B> Yes the computer is new, probably only run a few hours, built by me.

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[glc]

For future reference, a WD PATA drive cannot be jumpered to master or slave if it's the only drive on the cable. You have to remove the jumper for Single operation or use Cable Select if your cable is compatible.

[foolishone]

Thanks glc

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