ide channel problems

[FrothPlant]

I tried adding a harddrive to my comp last night and ran into a problem. I have a 40G 7200 2mb seagate which has my OS and data (set as the master) and tried adding a 80G 7200 8mb maxtor (set as slave). The seatgate was on ide 2 and the cdrom and dvdrw were on ide 1 and everything worked fine but after reboot the cdrom and dvd disappeared. I rearranged the drives in this formation
ide 1 seagate-master, maxtor slave; ide 2 cdrom master, dvdrw slave. The bios recognizes the drives properly but I still have question marks beside primary and secondary ide channel in device manager. I reinstalled the nvidia allinone driver but it doesnt help.

Suggestion appreciated,

Thanks

 

[madthumbs]

Recheck the jumper on the Maxtor. Some legends on Maxtor's are upside down (go by the key).

 

[Monkey muppet]

I set all HDD's and opticals to cable select then re-arrange them in BIOS (or physicaly by the cable) if need be - havn't had a problem reckonising (only slightly slower performance if I mix Optical with HDD on the same channel as it will only run as fast as the slowest device.

 

[FrothPlant]

To enable slave on the drive you have to remove the jumper.

 

[Monkey muppet]

Does the MB have SATA or IDE RAID controllers???

If so, make sure the options are they within the BIOS to disable their use

 

[FrothPlant]

2 x ATA133/100/66 IDE connectors supporting up to 4 IDE devices. Straight from the manufactures website. I wasnt to sure, its a soltek SL-75FRN2-L nVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 + MCP.

Thanks for the replies guys.

 

[FrothPlant]

I found the problem for those interested.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=151911

RESOLUTION
WARNING: If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

NOTE: The purpose of the registry value that is mentioned in this section is to prevent damaged data. Before you modify this registry value, it is recommended that you perform the troubleshooting steps in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article:
130179 Troubleshooting MS-DOS Compatibility Mode on Hard Disks
All Versions
To cause Windows to attempt to reinitialize the protected-mode IDE driver: 1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box, and then press ENTER.
2. Locate and click the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\IOS
3. In the right pane, right-click the NOIDE value, and then click Delete.
4. Quit Registry Editor.