Am I being stupid or have you connected your drives to the Gigaraid instead
of the IDE controller? At the very least you must set Gigaraid to IDE mode
in BIOS.

"Noël Danjou" wrote in message
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Hello,

I just bought a Giga-Byte GA-8GPNXP Duo motherboard and I am encountering
some issues with my IDE drives.

I connected:
- 1 Maxtor 40GB hard-drive as master on the IDE2 connector
- 1 Maxtor 40GB hard-drive as slave on the IDE2 connector
- 1 Plextor PX-130A as master on the IDE3 connector
- 1 Plextor PX-712A as slave on the IDE3 connector


I don't want to use RAID features. I just want the controler to run as a
standard ATAPI controler. I only use IDE drives I don't have any SATA
drives
yet. I want to boot from the master HDD on IDE2.

The motherboard BIOS version is F6.
The GigaRAID BIOS version is 1.41.

I configured the BIOS like this:
- Hard Disk Boot Priority: 1. SCSI-0: IT8212
- On-Chip Primary PCI IDE [Enabled]
- SATA RAID/AHCI Mode [Disabled]
- On-Chip SATA Mode [Auto]
- Onboard H/W GigaRAID [Enabled]
- GigaRAID Function [ATA]


* After the message "Please wait for IDE scan", only the two hard drives
are
seen (UDMA6) but I was never able to see the PX-130A whatever settings I
use
and only saw the PX-712A drive a few times.

* Another issue is that in the BIOS Setup, the "IDE HDD Auto-Detection"
feature does not detect the parameters of my HDD.

I tried all my drives in another PC and they all work correctly.

Could you please tell me what is wrong with my configuration and my
settings
and why I cannot see my DVD-ROM drives and auto-detect my HDD from the
BIOS.
Please advise. Thank you.

Noël