grobn

Hi, newbie here, just completing my first build. I was looking around for places to ask a question and this looks like a very active forum with good answers.

I have built a DAW computer, for recording audio only (no internet). I have 3 hard drives: a 160 GB WD Caviar, and two Raptors, a 150 GB and a 74 GB. The plan is to put the OS and audio programs on the Caviar, audio files on the Raptor 150 and samples on the Raptor 74.

I have a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 motherboard. It has different groups of SATA connectors, each a different color. (Apparently each represents an IDE channel, but I don't even know what that means.) When I plug hard drives into the first group, they are both recognized and work fine. However, if I plug into a different group (which I have to do because there are only two connectors in the first group), the hard drive doesn't show up in My Computer. It does, however, show up in the BIOS and in Device Manager.

So, can anyone explain to me how can I get all three drives to show up in My Computer so that I can use them?

Also, I didn't do anything with the jumpers, although the two drives show up in the BIOS under IDE channel 1 as master and slave. Is that OK?

Thanks!