Well, it's my fault but I can't fix it either.. 
Here's the LONG story.
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At this point, everything was working correctly.. i could see all my ide devices.
I'm running win2k. In device Manager, under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers, there were 3 items:
Unknown Device
VIA Bus Master IDE Controller
Unknown Device
so, being an engineer and all, I decided to remove both of the 'unknown device' entries. rebooted and guess what?
everything that was connected to my secondary ide channel dissapear.
I tried reinstalling the ide driver, doing "add new hardware" (didn't detect any new hd), etc.. nothing.
Then i decided to manually add an ide controller. Both primary & secondary came up and the VIA Bus Master IDE Controller has a big red X because it's conflicting with the new primary ide. but it seems to work ok (i could see the devices on the secondary channel).
THEN I decided to remove the driver for my Maxtor ATA100 controller card (which is not in the system anymore).
Rebooted and I got a blue screen saying that there's something wrong with my boot sector or something like that.. it's a win2k error.
i temporarily fixed this problem by reinstalling my ata100 controller and running my hd from there.
The weird thing is, under "fixed disk" it listed my Maxtor IDE drive as a SCSI device.
yes yes yes, i know, "if it ain't broke, don't touch it"
so, anyone can help me?
Here's the LONG story.
--
At this point, everything was working correctly.. i could see all my ide devices.
I'm running win2k. In device Manager, under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers, there were 3 items:
Unknown Device
VIA Bus Master IDE Controller
Unknown Device
so, being an engineer and all
, I decided to remove both of the 'unknown device' entries. rebooted and guess what?everything that was connected to my secondary ide channel dissapear.
I tried reinstalling the ide driver, doing "add new hardware" (didn't detect any new hd), etc.. nothing.
Then i decided to manually add an ide controller. Both primary & secondary came up and the VIA Bus Master IDE Controller has a big red X because it's conflicting with the new primary ide. but it seems to work ok (i could see the devices on the secondary channel).
THEN I decided to remove the driver for my Maxtor ATA100 controller card (which is not in the system anymore).
Rebooted and I got a blue screen saying that there's something wrong with my boot sector or something like that.. it's a win2k error.
i temporarily fixed this problem by reinstalling my ata100 controller and running my hd from there.
The weird thing is, under "fixed disk" it listed my Maxtor IDE drive as a SCSI device.
yes yes yes, i know, "if it ain't broke, don't touch it"
so, anyone can help me?
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