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SATA/IDE problem

  • 20-07-2005 2:42pm
    #1
    the corpo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,802 ✭✭✭


    I installed a new Epox motherboard last week. My old IDE HD works fine, but I decided to install a new SATA HD as master and leave the IDE as a slave.

    So, installed OS on the SATA one fine. Its set as primary drive in bios, but when i reconnect the IDE as slave the bios doesn't see it.

    the only bios setting that had an effect was setting the SATA to secondary, in which case the machine booted to the IDE OS!

    help!


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  • #2
    Kernel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    the corpo wrote:
    I installed a new Epox motherboard last week. My old IDE HD works fine, but I decided to install a new SATA HD as master and leave the IDE as a slave.

    So, installed OS on the SATA one fine. Its set as primary drive in bios, but when i reconnect the IDE as slave the bios doesn't see it.

    the only bios setting that had an effect was setting the SATA to secondary, in which case the machine booted to the IDE OS!

    help!

    How have you set up the old IDE as secondary? Did you change the jumpers? If so, I'd recheck that you have changed them properly.


  • #3
    the corpo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,802 ✭✭✭the corpo


    jumpers are set correctly for the IDE to be a slave. the HD requires the jumper to actually be removed for it to be slave.

    bizarrely, it worked just before I left it today. set the SATA to enhanced mode. system booted up perfectly and all the drives were in XP. did some updating, rebooted, and it booted into the old OS on the IDE drive, despite it being set to slave

    i hate computers!


  • #4
    kasintahan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭kasintahan


    No, the jumpers on the drive govern only that drive on that cable.
    If there are two hard disks on two different cables then they are both masters.

    In the case of SATA there is no master/slave as it's one drive per cable.

    What you want to set is the boot priority.


  • #5
    the corpo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,802 ✭✭✭the corpo


    ah

    boot options in the epox bios are pretty useless sadly. i get option to boot to hdd and thats it, doesn't allow me to specify what drive or sata/ide


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