using serrillel adapter on non abit boards.

[oslama]

I have couple of ide drives that i want to add using the abit serillel adapters. I have 2 versions (0 and 1)
I have a intel D965WH with 4 unused SATA ports which i did not load the drivers for when installing xp.

would i be able to get existing ide drives and sata adapter to work this way.

 

[WoundedWallet]

I am able to use a HD on an Asus, but not cds. I don't know the version of serillel, but it's the one that came with the nf7.

 

[SynthDude2001]

I've used them with no problems on an ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 board; I also have two different versions (one came with my old NF7-S 2.0 and I purchased one separately). Hard drives work just fine with them and in my experience, CD/DVD drives generally do as well (although you might run into some issues if you try to boot to an optical drive that's on one of those adapters).

 

[oslama]

I cant get xp to recoginze the HD. the sata drivers are loaded and i enable sata - ide mode in bios.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: oslama
I cant get xp to recoginze the HD. the sata drivers are loaded and i enable sata - ide mode in bios.

The only thing I can think of is to make sure the drive is jumpered correctly - it should be set to either "Master" or "Master without Slave" if the drive has a setting for that (WD drives usually).

 

[oslama]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: oslama
I cant get xp to recoginze the HD. the sata drivers are loaded and i enable sata - ide mode in bios.

The only thing I can think of is to make sure the drive is jumpered correctly - it should be set to either "Master" or "Master without Slave" if the drive has a setting for that (WD drives usually).

thnks i moved the jumper from cs to master and it worked.

Another Q if i were to add another serillel adapter and ata HD. Would i set it to slave?

is sata similar to pata, in that 1 channel connects 2 drives. I have four sata connectors and win xp "sees" 2 controllers. so would sata ports 1 and 3 be on one controller with 2 and 4 on another controller.

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: oslama

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: oslama
I cant get xp to recoginze the HD. the sata drivers are loaded and i enable sata - ide mode in bios.

The only thing I can think of is to make sure the drive is jumpered correctly - it should be set to either "Master" or "Master without Slave" if the drive has a setting for that (WD drives usually).

thnks i moved the jumper from cs to master and it worked.

Another Q if i were to add another serillel adapter and ata HD. Would i set it to slave?

is sata similar to pata, in that 1 channel connects 2 drives. I have four sata connectors and win xp "sees" 2 controllers. so would sata ports 1 and 3 be on one controller with 2 and 4 on another controller.

Each SATA drive/connection is on its own channel (there's no concept of master/slave for SATA), so you should set each drive that's connected to an adapter, as Master. There may be more than one channel/port per controller, but not more than one drive per channel.

 

[oslama]

i switched HDs and put a "system" disk from another rig on the serrillel adapter and now i can't boot into windows. Get a select F1 to load operating system.