IDE Drive Detection With Epox 8K7A

[Playmaker]

I just put together a new computer and I'm having problems with getting it set up. I have my 40GB IBM 60GXP on Secondary Master and my Pioneer DVD-106S on Primary Master and AOpen Burner on Primary Slave. When I boot up the hard drive shows up correctly, but the Pioneer DVD doesn't show up at all while the Aopen burner shows up as Primary master instead. I rechecked the cord a few times and eveything is connected correctly. I have another IDE cable that is only 1 ended and I can get either drive to come up as Primary Master with this cord. What's going on? What should I do to fix this? Thanks.

 

[Sundog]

<< I have my 40GB IBM 60GXP on Secondary Master and my Pioneer DVD-106S on Primary Master >>


Shouldn't that be the other way around?

 

[madthumbs]

Yeah, try it the other way around. Also check the boot sequence in the BIOS. I did have a problem booting to DOS with an extra IDE card installed. It would hang when it got to it. Once I got the OS installed I was good to put it back in.

 

[ledzepp98]

as others have said, make the hard drive primary master. also, you said you checked the cables, but make sure you have the master/slave jumpers set right