Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394

[LuckyTaxi]

Just assembled my new server and the MB is a gigabyte ga-7vt600 1394.
It stays at the "Detecting IDE device" for about a minute or so and then it boots up.
There are ONLY two drives (HD and CDROM) and once it gets passed that, it loads up fine.

 

[Megatomic]

Turn off the other IDE channel so that the BIOS doesn't try to enumerate drives that aren't there. Also, make sure to turn off a SATA boot ROM if the board has one.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
Turn off the other IDE channel so that the BIOS doesn't try to enumerate drives that aren't there. Also, make sure to turn off a SATA boot ROM if the board has one.

i made sure the other IDE channel is off, but i forgot about the SATA. Let me go see if that will work.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

turning off SATA didnt speed it up.

I dont know, I dread trying to reboot this thing knowing that it could take anywhere from 1-2 minutes to get it past that screen!

 

[Megatomic]

Here's something else. Do you have the drives jumpered properly? If each drive is on it's own channel with no slave, make sure the drive is set to Master. If they are on the same channel, make sure the HD is set to Master and the CD is set to Slave.

And is the IDE cable(s) in good shape?

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
Here's something else. Do you have the drives jumpered properly? If each drive is on it's own channel with no slave, make sure the drive is set to Master. If they are on the same channel, make sure the HD is set to Master and the CD is set to Slave.

And is the IDE cable(s) in good shape?

Fixed it. What's Cable Select? I had set the HD to Master on IDE 1 and the CDROM to master on IDE 2.
I thought it was the cable itself, but upon removing the jumper pin from the HD, the system boots up fast!!! Thanks

 

[Megatomic]

Cable Select allows the BIOS to set the drives connected to it to Master/Slave per the position the drive is at on the cable. Most new IDE cables will have a way of labelling the connectors. Mine have "System Board", "Master Device", and "Slave Device".

So you had both drives attached to one IDE channel via one 2 device IDE cable but you had each drive set to Master? If so, that explains the problem very clearly. Congrats on fixing it. :beer:

 

[LuckyTaxi]

So you had both drives attached to one IDE channel via one 2 device IDE cable but you had each drive set to Master? If so, that explains the problem very clearly. Congrats on fixing it. :beer:

No, i had them on separate IDE cables, and each one was set to MASTER. Very weird as it should still work, but that explains why upon detecting the drives it stated the Primary Slave was not found. BUT, i had set that to NONE. Now it's gone when the jumper is out.

 

[Megatomic]

I must be tired, I can't visualize how you have your drives cabled/jumpered and how they're set in the BIOS. Here is what most would consider to be the optimal setup for a system like yours:

Hard drive with jumper set to Master connected to IDE1. BIOS set to auto detect on IDE1 Master, IDE1 Slave set to none.

CD-ROM with jumper set to Master connected to IDE2. BIOS set to auto detect on IDE2 Master, IDE2 Slave set to none.

Give that a try if that's not what you have now. I'm certain it's the most logical way to do it and it should maximize the bandwidth available to both drives.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Originally posted by: Megatomic
I must be tired, I can't visualize how you have your drives cabled/jumpered and how they're set in the BIOS. Here is what most would consider to be the optimal setup for a system like yours:

Hard drive with jumper set to Master connected to IDE1. BIOS set to auto detect on IDE1 Master, IDE1 Slave set to none.

CD-ROM with jumper set to Master connected to IDE2. BIOS set to auto detect on IDE2 Master, IDE2 Slave set to none.

Give that a try if that's not what you have now. I'm certain it's the most logical way to do it and it should maximize the bandwidth available to both drives.

Thats what I did! For some reason the system doesnt hang like it did when I had the jumper on my HD set to master. I REMOVE the jumper pin off and now it's fine.

Weird stuff ... but hey its working fine now.

Thanks