Problem with SATA and PATA

[imported_Solace666]

My machine boots up fine when just the SATA drive is hooked up (windows installed on that drive) but when I add a slave PATA drive, the machine cannot find a boot disk. I have the latest bios and set things appropriately in it but it still does not seem to work. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

[2cpuminimum]

what is the pata drive a slave to?

 

[sykopath79]

Try setting your PATA drive to Cable Select and see what happens. My hunch is that since your main HDD is SATA, you haven't got another drive on the same IDE channel as your PATA drive and therefore setting it as Slave will make things not work.

 

[Gigantopithecus]

Originally posted by: sykopath79
Try setting your PATA drive to Cable Select and see what happens. My hunch is that since your main HDD is SATA, you haven't got another drive on the same IDE channel as your PATA drive and therefore setting it as Slave will make things not work.

 

[corkyg]

SATA drives have to be masters - they cannot have slaves. Period. If you are also using an IDE drive (the dumb PATA word), you should also set it as Master and connect it to an IDE channel. Then in BIOS you set your boot order so that SATA is first.

 

[FlyingPenguin]

Did you change the boot order in BIOS to make the SATA the first hard drive booted? It's probably trying to boot from the first PATA drive.

 

[helpmeout]

Ignore post.

 

[imported_Solace666]

The SATA drive is set to be the boot drive. I'll check the IDE drive but I'm pretty sure it's on cable select (I'll try it as a master). Thanks for the help.

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: corkyg
SATA drives have to be masters - they cannot have slaves. Period. If you are also using an IDE drive (the dumb PATA word), you should also set it as Master and connect it to an IDE channel. Then in BIOS you set your boot order so that SATA is first.

Depending on the mobo he should also make sure the SATA and PATA are on different channels. With my mobo, if I use and SATA drive, I lose the ability to use IDE 1. Its an intel mobo and not sure if other act in the same manner.

 

[helpmeout]

Rudder, which Intel mobo are you using? Is it built in SATA, or a card? I've never heard of losing and IDE connection.