PATA & SATA: SATA undetected, PATA as master

[Ludootje]

I have an Asus A7N8X motherboard, with two drives. A 20GB maxtor PATA, and a 120GB maxtor SATA.
On the PATA, I have a working WinXP. On the SATA, I have a broken Win2k (NTFS) and some Linux filesystems.
What I'd like to do: keep on being to boot WinXP, and access the win2k's NTFS partition from it.
Currently, there are no jumpers in the SATA, and I believe the PATA is set as master (does this matter?). WinXP doesn't show me any other drive/partition than its own. In the BIOS, it doesn't detect the SATA drive (BTW the BIOS is not the most recent one at all, but I suppose this doesn't matter, right?).

Any advice on how I can fix this is greatly appreciated!

 

[stevty2889]

Well if it's not seen in bios, it isn't going to be seen in windows..you need to make sure SATA is enabled in BIOS, and check all the settings. Is the SATA drive seen by the bios with the PATA drive disconnected?

 

[Ludootje]

Thanks for your answer.
Sorry, I should've mentioned that. I used the SATA drive alone at first, so yes, it works fine and is connected correctly.
I'm more and more wondering if it'd have something to do with the PATA jumpers, but then I wouldn't know what to change...
Anyone an idea?

 

[stevty2889]

Jumpers on the PATA drive won't affect the SATA drive, they are on totaly seperate controllers. I think on some older motherboards,you couldn't use both PATA and SATA drives at the same time, but it could very well just be a bios setting that needs to be changed. Do you have an option to put the SATA controller in enhanced mode?

 

[Parkre]

You may have to install the sata raid drivers. I have this board and love it. But I have never had any trouble 80GB Sata (Primary) 250 Sata (secondary) and occasional 160 Pata and other HD that need to be worked on from time to time. Never needed to change any BIOS setting.

 

[Ludootje]

stevty2889: I had a look inside the BIOS, but couldn't find anything like that... I tried autodetecting it again etc., but it still can't find it.
As it works for Parkre, I guess this isn't a motherboard which doesn't support both PATA & SATA at the same time.

Parkre: well I have no problem installing those drivers, but I wonder how that would help, as I'm not using RAID for it... Also, these drivers will only affect WinXP, not the BIOS.

Thanks for all your suggestions!