problems running sata with IDE drives

[mentalcrisis00]

Hey all

In my desperation for more disk space but a lack of funds for a new sata drive I started installing my old IDE drives along with my sata primaries as storage space. It worked out good with my AMD skt 939 rig, all I did was plug them in and vista did the rest. Now I've just gone to intel and the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R, when I installed my IDE drives and booted into windows I can't see them even in disk management. I went into the bios and the only entries that refer to hard drives are these:

1. Sata RAID/AHCI Mode - Disable, RAID, AHCI

2. Onboard Sata/IDE Device - Disable, Enable

3. Onboard Sata/IDE Ctrl Mode - IDE, AHCI, RAID

I don't want raid so I set those to AHCI, Enable, and AHCI and still can't get windows to load the drives. Also vista just crashed as I was writing this lol and on reboot said Error Loading OS. I unplugged all drives but the primary sata and it booted again.

I'm kind of at a loss here so any comments would be helpful, I'll probably be calling gigabyte at some point today if I can't resolve this on my own.

 

[Elixer]

You sure you set the jumpers correctly on the IDE drives? If they are not set, then they won't be detected correctly.

Also when installing drives, it messes up the letters, since it still is based on the DOS scheme of things, but since they were not detected in disk management, this won't be a issue...yet.

 

[mentalcrisis00]

I wrote in about this before when I had my AMD system still and was told not to use the jumpers. I had them both set to slave jumper and couldn't get them detected. I spose it wouldn't hurt to try using the jumpers to see if it works. I'll write back when I do that.

 

[mentalcrisis00]

ok well I found out some interesting things. Before on my AMD system I wasn't trying to run TWO IDE drives, it was 2 sata and 1 IDE. I just tried that config again and it worked without having to put jumpers on. Vista detected 2 satas and 1 IDE. So I turned the system off and plugged the second IDE in again, started the system and this time it didn't detect either IDE drive. There must be some problem with the board recognizing more than 1 IDE slave drive, I never tried 2 on my old system so maybe the same problem would have cropped up there. At any rate I submitted a ticket to gigabyte and for now I have the drive going that has all my music on it so I'm happy. Thanks for the help.

All the best

-Ray

 

[techmanc]

If you have the 2 IDE drives on one cable they should be set master/slave or if your using cable select with the connector farthest from the motherbord connector being the Master and middle connector being slave designated. If you using 2 IDE cables set both single drive master or cable select. Sometimes only one setting will work e.g. master setting works but not cs