BIOS doesn't detect S-ATA drive

[Warpspasm]

I just installed a second hard drive on my PC. The first one is a WD 120 and uses the standard IDE 133. The one I just bought is a Samsung 160 GB S-ATA drive. I mounted the drive, attached the cables, powered up, went into BIOS only to find that the drive doesn't show up anywhere. BIOS is set to automatically configure drives. Right now here's what it shows:

Primary IDE Master WDC 120
Primary IDE Slave Zip 250
Secondary IDE Master Plextor DVD-R
Secondary IDE Slave Plextor CD-R
Third IDE Master Not Detected
Fourth IDE Master Not Detected

Enhanced Mode Support On [S-ATA]
Configure as RAID No
Timeout for Detection 35 Sec.

I must be doing something wrong, but darn if I know what it is.

Please help.

 

[PurdueRy]

#1 its not an IDE
#2 did you press f6 and install the sata drivers?

 

[airfoil]

Do you see the drive in Disk Management?

Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management

 

[Warpspasm]

I didn't press F6 and install any SATA drivers. It doesn't show up in Disk Management.

 

[Warpspasm]

Okay, I just rebooted and pressed F6, but nothing happened. It just booted into XP. What was it supposed to do?

 

[PurdueRy]

hm ok I didn't mean now that you have windows installed. You need to install your SATA drivers. If you bought the motherboard it shoudl have come on a floppy disk.

 

[Warpspasm]

The software came on a CD. I'm at work at the moment, but I'll look at what's on the CD when I get home. I still don't know what hitting F6 does. I know that F8 will get me into Windows alternate boot etc. menu, but how about F6?

 

[PurdueRy]

F6 is only if you are installing windows onto a sata drive. Dont' worry about that, unless thats what you want to do.

But you still need the sata drivers if this is going to work, also their might be an option to turn them on and off in the BIOS

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Enable SATA in Bios & load the SATA drivers into Windows. Good luck.

 

[Warpspasm]

There is a section on enabling RAID where you can pick SATA. I'm not using RAID, but I left that to SATA anyway. The thing I don't uderstand about the drivers is, I thought the drive would be recognized in BIOS because of the Intel Southbridge chipset. I was under the impression all of that was in firmware.