Do I have this right? You're adding a second SATA hard disk? Typically they set dual hard disks up from the factory (at least the ones I have seen) using SATA 0 and SATA 2. Of course, your optical drives will be PATA 0 and 1 in BIOS.
Put the new SATA drive jumper back where it was originally and verify the SATA connector numeral on the system board. Then go into BIOS and be sure to enable that controller.
Again, not sure if I have your problem right or not. Here's hoping.
Hey NVRambo - I'm in the same boat as Speedbird but my second drive is PATA. I've got the PATA-SATA converter, plugged into SATA2, put the jumper on the 2nd drive to cableselect, and set the BIOS to RAID autodetect SATA ...(Speedbird - this could be the bios setting you are missing )...except I'm still stuck and all my digital photos are still waiting for me to apply my newfound Photoshop experience to them :-(
The second drive is actually an ATA IDE drive but have installed a SATA converter on it.
Will give the SATA2 port a try and change the jumper again and see what happens.Might even try plugging it into the IDE cable to see if that will recognize it.
Maybe there is something wrong with the converter so I'll try and narrow it down and get back to you on the progress.
as i stated, go into bios and set first boot drive to the one that has the operating system, sometimes when ya have more than one drive, and don,t set the first boot device to hd with operating system, bios has hard time seeing drives.
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Do I have this right? You're adding a second SATA hard disk? Typically they set dual hard disks up from the factory (at least the ones I have seen) using SATA 0 and SATA 2. Of course, your optical drives will be PATA 0 and 1 in BIOS.
Put the new SATA drive jumper back where it was originally and verify the SATA connector numeral on the system board. Then go into BIOS and be sure to enable that controller.
Again, not sure if I have your problem right or not. Here's hoping.
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Hey NVRambo - I'm in the same boat as Speedbird but my second drive is PATA. I've got the PATA-SATA converter, plugged into SATA2, put the jumper on the 2nd drive to cableselect, and set the BIOS to RAID autodetect SATA ...(Speedbird - this could be the bios setting you are missing )...except I'm still stuck and all my digital photos are still waiting for me to apply my newfound Photoshop experience to them :-(
Any thoughts on this ?
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Thanks for the input guys.
The second drive is actually an ATA IDE drive but have installed a SATA converter on it.
Will give the SATA2 port a try and change the jumper again and see what happens.Might even try plugging it into the IDE cable to see if that will recognize it.
Maybe there is something wrong with the converter so I'll try and narrow it down and get back to you on the progress.
Chris Boyce
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