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07-28-2004, 07:24 AM
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running SATA and IDE drives together?
I have a computer that runs the OS off of WD 120 G SATA HDD. I am trying to add an older IDE drive for storage. When I boot up I either get select correct boot device or it boots and does no recognize the IDE HDD. I have tried jumpering the IDE drive in every position and get nothing.
Here is my system: P4P800-E ASUS M/B ASUS 128 graphics card P4 2.8 G processor 120 G WD HDD 2 G of DDR Ram Win XP Pro On the primary IDE channel I have a cd drive and a cd burner. I am trying to hook up the IDE HDD to the secondary IDE channel. Thanks in advance for you help. |
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07-28-2004, 08:17 AM
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Are yo using a 40-line or 80-line cable?
Is the drive partitioned and formatted?
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07-28-2004, 08:34 AM
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Make sure that your boot order has your SATA drive listed before any IDE HD's such as HD0, HD1 ect. I boot from a SATA drive with a IDE drive for storage and my mobo (A7N8X) doesn't have SATA option so I have to have SCSI as first boot device.
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07-28-2004, 08:34 AM
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The drive is formatted and patitioned, I was using it before as storage on an older machine. Formatted with NTFS. The cable is just a reg 40 pin )round) IDE cable. we have tried a couple of cables and still nothing...
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07-28-2004, 10:02 AM
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OK, here is the weird thing. If I have the IDE drive hooked up the SATA drive does not even show up in the boot order selection. If I disconnect it and then go to the BIOS, set the boot order as: SATA-floppy and then cd drive, shutdown hook up the IDE drive and reboot (primary or secondary IDE channel), it completly changes the boot order and wipes out the SATA and puts the IDE drive as primary boot.
I am out of ideas, the place were I got the components said it should work. Quote:
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07-28-2004, 10:37 AM
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Do you have a option to boot from SCSI? If so set it as first boot device.
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08-09-2004, 07:05 PM
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turns out this is a known issue with this ASUS M/B, apparently will be fixed with the next BIOS update per: ASUS. thanks all for your help.
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08-13-2004, 05:39 PM
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Thank You PC Mech once again! I had asked of anyone had problems with this on the Asus P4P800 in a previous forum the other day since I was considering buying a SATA HDD to go with my 3 IDE drives....
I have a P4P800DLX myself and will anxiously await the new bios update and look for reviews of if it fixes the problem. |
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