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P4C800 Deluxe with SATA and IDE drives..
I've just purchased a Seagate SATA drive and have run into a problem
concerning this drive and getting it work my other IDE drives. My IDE drives are a Seagate HD, a Pioneer DVD-Rom and a Lite-On CD recorder. I can't get all the drives to work together, the best luck I've had so far is getting the SATA, DVD and recorder working in "compatible mode", but the IDE HD is not detected. If I select "enhanced mode" the SATA drive is not recognized at all. Oh yes, I'm using Windows XP home edition. I have the drives setup like this.... The SATA HD is connected to SATA1. The IDE HD is connected to the primary IDE port, currently the jumper is set to master, though I have tried it as slave as well. Pioneer DVD is connected to secondary IDE port and is set as master. Lite-On recorder is also using the secondary port and is set as slave. Any ideas? Thanks. Tony |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 02:03:15 +1000, Tony Rae
wrote: I've just purchased a Seagate SATA drive and have run into a problem concerning this drive and getting it work my other IDE drives. My IDE drives are a Seagate HD, a Pioneer DVD-Rom and a Lite-On CD recorder. I can't get all the drives to work together, the best luck I've had so far is getting the SATA, DVD and recorder working in "compatible mode", but the IDE HD is not detected. Never mind, I worked it out. As if often the case, it was something simple. 3rd IDE Master was showing as "not detected" and it was a simple case of re-setting it to auto detect, it then found the SATA drive along with the rest of the others This still leaves me wondering why the two partitions on my SATA drive are listed as drive C: and E: while the single partition on my IDE HD is listed as D:. Something else for me to try and work out.... |
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On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:55:28 -0400, "Fawad Chughtai"
wrote: I think this is pretty standard. If you just have 2 IDE drives, the boot drive has a partition, and you have another physical drive, windows does c: as the primary, d as the other drive, and e as the secondary partition on first drive. Thats what I have observed. That's basically correct. If the second hard drive has a primary partition on it, it will work this way. IF the second hard drive is partitioned as an "Extended DOS" partition, however, then the all the logical drives on the first hard drive will be lettered sequentially and the drive(s) on the second hard drive will then be lettered sequentially starting after the last logical drive on the first HD. Unless one is dual booting and has a second OS on the second drive, it's usually more practical to partition that drive as Extended DOS and then put logical drives in that partition In XP, it doesn't really matter much because it's so easy to simply assign different letters to all drives other than C:. (I think that it might even be possible that C: can be assigned another letter, but that entails a lot of risk that Registry entries will no longer be correct, so it should not be done even if it's possible.) "Tony Rae" wrote in message .. . On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 02:03:15 +1000, Tony Rae wrote: I've just purchased a Seagate SATA drive and have run into a problem concerning this drive and getting it work my other IDE drives. My IDE drives are a Seagate HD, a Pioneer DVD-Rom and a Lite-On CD recorder. I can't get all the drives to work together, the best luck I've had so far is getting the SATA, DVD and recorder working in "compatible mode", but the IDE HD is not detected. Never mind, I worked it out. As if often the case, it was something simple. 3rd IDE Master was showing as "not detected" and it was a simple case of re-setting it to auto detect, it then found the SATA drive along with the rest of the others This still leaves me wondering why the two partitions on my SATA drive are listed as drive C: and E: while the single partition on my IDE HD is listed as D:. Something else for me to try and work out.... Ron |
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You can change the drive letters in XP by right clicking on 'my computer'
and selecting manage then in the window that pops up go to storage - disk management. Right click on the partition space (not the disk 0, disk 1, etc icon but the area to the right of the disk) you want to reassign a drive letter to and select 'change drive letters and path' - can't change the boot drive letter though. "Tony Rae" wrote in message ... On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 02:03:15 +1000, Tony Rae wrote: I've just purchased a Seagate SATA drive and have run into a problem concerning this drive and getting it work my other IDE drives. My IDE drives are a Seagate HD, a Pioneer DVD-Rom and a Lite-On CD recorder. I can't get all the drives to work together, the best luck I've had so far is getting the SATA, DVD and recorder working in "compatible mode", but the IDE HD is not detected. Never mind, I worked it out. As if often the case, it was something simple. 3rd IDE Master was showing as "not detected" and it was a simple case of re-setting it to auto detect, it then found the SATA drive along with the rest of the others This still leaves me wondering why the two partitions on my SATA drive are listed as drive C: and E: while the single partition on my IDE HD is listed as D:. Something else for me to try and work out.... |
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