Hard drive detection

[Superself]

I have an Asus A7V133 motherboard and IBM 30 Deskstar 30G ATA hard drive.

Recently my IBM hard drive just failed/crashed for no reason that I can detect...after having it run well for 3+ months. After performing many checks, I disconnected the drive and decided to send it back to IBM.
In the interim, I purchased a Maxtor 40 Gig ATA hard drive from Staples.
I connected the ATA cable (blue end) to the Primary connector on the MB and plugged the black end into the hard drive. I insured that the jumper settings were correct for it to be the Master. The power cable was also plugged in.
Problem is that I couldn't get the BIOS to see the Hard drive. My BIOS only will set my CDROM as a Primary IDE device and my CDRW as the secondary. I don't see my new hard drive listed anywhere. If these are set to auto, shouldn't the Plug n Play capable BIOS be able to detect the Maxtor hard drive?

I also noticed that Maxtor's MaxBlast software doesn't detect it either. It only will detect my CDROMs!

I am using BIOS version 1004

Are ATA hard drives detected separately from IDE? If so, where in the BIOS do I tell it to auto detect?
Is my motherboard screwed up? Maybe my IBM drive wasn't broken after all!

All help appreciated!

 

[NelsonMuntz]

Where is the Maxtor on the IDE channels? Is it set as primary master with the CD-ROM as primary slave and the CD-RW as secondary master? If that is how it is supposed to be, it sounds like you may have a DOA hard drive.

 

[Superself]

My Maxtor is set as the Primary Master.

I have since been able to get the hard drive working...somehow FDISK was the only thing seeing it. (I still don't see it in the BIOS) I was able to format the drive too.
Are the ATA devices listed separately somewhere in the BIOS....do they have their own BIOS like SCSI?? I'm missing something here.

Thanks for listening.

 

[Freddie_P]

SOunds to me like you have it in the promise controller connector if you cdrom is the primary IDE then your h/d cannot be in there. What I have done for both my a7v and a7v133 installs is to plug it into the primary ide drive likely where your cd is currently plugged into and then either move the cd to the cdrw or change the cd jumper to make it a slave and plug it into the same cable as the maxtor. Do all my windows installs etc there once it is booting fine there then move it to the promise controller...FP