sata does not work with my old hd's

Beregon · 10-16-2004, 12:30 AM

I just purchased a new Sata drive from seagate. in adition to the seagate, i have 2 cdroms and 2 WD 150 Gb harddrives. After i had installed Windows on the Sata drive, and booted from it, the pc could not detect my other harddrives. The cdroms are working though. If i change to 'pata 1/2 + sata 1/2' from 'sata 1/2 + pata 3/4' in the bios, the harddrives is detected, but the cdrom stations are not.. can someone please help me?
i have phoenix bios.

Yours,

kof2000 · 10-16-2004, 04:43 AM

set it to enhanced sata support or something similar. that uses both ide+sata.

**Praetor** · 10-16-2004, 06:12 PM

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If I change to 'pata 1/2 + sata 1/2' from 'sata 1/2 + pata 3/4' in the bios, the harddrives is detected, but the cdrom stations are not..

Try setting SATA 1/2 and PATA 1/2/3/4? It seems you have a mobo/bios limitation on the number of active drives

Beregon · 10-17-2004, 12:27 AM

kof, how do i do that?

praetor, i only have 3 options on my sata drive mapping:

Sata 1/2
Sata 1/2 + pata 3/4
pata 1/2 + sata 1/2

thanks for ttrying to help me.

**Praetor** · 10-17-2004, 05:22 PM

Quote:

praetor, i only have 3 options on my sata drive mapping:

Then im sorry to say that your mobo (or rather, the chipset) isnt advanced enough to properly implement SATA/PATA drive arrays. The simplest solution here would be to buy an IDE PATA controller card (~$25).

Just a curiosity: it seems that the available configurations violate ATA specs .... if you disable SATA entirely, can you set PATA 1/2/3/4? (you should be able to) ... what motherboard is this?

Beregon · 10-17-2004, 05:40 PM

ye, that sounds fair. i looked at the web based manual for my mobo, and from what i read, it isnt possible to use my sata as boot drive, and still use both ide interfaces.
no use in trying to update my bios?

my mobo is one ****(lol?) called FUJITSU SIEMENS D1627.. its from fujitsu siemens, so what do you expect.. ^^
Are you sure that buying a IDE PATA controller card will solve my problem..?

and well, actually, where i choose my sata drive mapping is INside the sata configuration; in 'main', i can configure both the ata interfaces and the drives on them..

thanks prea, yoiu've been very helpful!

**Praetor** · 10-19-2004, 04:24 PM

Quote:

Are you sure that buying a IDE PATA controller card will solve my problem..?

Yes

Beregon · 10-20-2004, 10:10 AM

ok.. you have any good tips on a manufacturer?
and what does it do..?

**Praetor** · 10-20-2004, 03:33 PM

Promise is probably one of the more commonly available makers although I personalyl have not have very good experience with their more readily available models. Highpoint is another brand, for which ive had very good experiences with

Beregon · 10-22-2004, 07:26 PM

ok, thanks

btw, is this a good one?
http://www.directron.com/133s.html

10-16-2004, 12:30 AM	#1 (permalink)
Beregon New Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 12	sata does not work with my old hd's I just purchased a new Sata drive from seagate. in adition to the seagate, i have 2 cdroms and 2 WD 150 Gb harddrives. After i had installed Windows on the Sata drive, and booted from it, the pc could not detect my other harddrives. The cdroms are working though. If i change to 'pata 1/2 + sata 1/2' from 'sata 1/2 + pata 3/4' in the bios, the harddrives is detected, but the cdrom stations are not.. can someone please help me? i have phoenix bios. Yours,

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Beregon New Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 12	ok, thanks btw, is this a good one? http://www.directron.com/133s.html Last edited by Beregon; 10-22-2004 at 07:44 PM.

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10-17-2004, 12:27 AM	#4 (permalink)
Beregon New Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 12	kof, how do i do that? praetor, i only have 3 options on my sata drive mapping: Sata 1/2 Sata 1/2 + pata 3/4 pata 1/2 + sata 1/2 thanks for ttrying to help me.

10-17-2004, 05:40 PM	#6 (permalink)
Beregon New Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 12	ye, that sounds fair. i looked at the web based manual for my mobo, and from what i read, it isnt possible to use my sata as boot drive, and still use both ide interfaces. no use in trying to update my bios? my mobo is one ****(lol?) called FUJITSU SIEMENS D1627.. its from fujitsu siemens, so what do you expect.. ^^ Are you sure that buying a IDE PATA controller card will solve my problem..? and well, actually, where i choose my sata drive mapping is INside the sata configuration; in 'main', i can configure both the ata interfaces and the drives on them.. thanks prea, yoiu've been very helpful!

10-20-2004, 10:10 AM	#8 (permalink)
Beregon New Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 12	ok.. you have any good tips on a manufacturer? and what does it do..?