bios (ami vs award) config sata 2 drives differently ???
I just changed my dead msi p6n to a gigabyte ga p35ds3r mb; my
drives are 1 500 gig seagate sata 2, 1 ide wdc 160 gig using an ide-sata converter, 1 sata dvd burner, 1 ide dvd burner. The p6n ami bios has the drive config of both the harddrives as sata as well as the sata dvd burner; the ide burner remains as ide. e.g. sata --- seagate 500 gig as main drive sata ---- wdc 160 gig (with ide to sata converter, jumpered as master) sata ---- dvd lightscribe burner ide ----- dvd burner Very staight forward. On the gigabyte award bios sees everything as ide, which is ok, BUT the bios also see the drivers as master & slaves! ide 0 master ---- sata dvd lightscribe burner slave ---- sata 500 gig seagate ("drive C") ide 1 master ---- empty slave ----- wdc 160 gig (with ide to sata converter jumpered as master) ide 3 master --- empty slave ---- empty ide 4 master ------ ide dvd burner (jumpered as master) The connections to the mb is the "same" for both boards, i.e. sata 0 (1) --- 500 gig seagate sata 1 (2) --- dvd lightscribe burner sata 2 (3) ---- 160 gig wdc ide ----------- ide dvd burner If the above is understandable, why is there a difference between the bios drive configs? AND most importaantly, how or is it possible to reset the award bios to look somewhat like the ami which is more logical? The main problem is I'm dual booting with winxp on the 500 gig & linux on the 160 dig setup as the secondary drive (as seen from winxp & linux) such that linux (suse 10.3) cannot find its partitons. Will probably have to reinstall linux but this "master slave" stuff in the bios makes things VERY confusing........ Any clarifications with bios settings of why the award bios is doing things that appear to be haphazard to me????? |
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