Ide to sata hard drives

[coolman2009]

hello:

recently I build a custom pc with this specs:

AMD ATHLON X2 64 DUAL CORE (2.8 GHZ)

PC CHIPS MOTHERBOARD A13 G+ V3.0A (GeForce 6100 nForce 405 250 MB)

2 PATRIOT MEMORY (1 GB PC2-4200 533 MHZ CL4)

SEAGATE 80 GB IDE

POWER SUPPLY DIABLO ATX 550

WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION

DVD ROM PATA

BECAUSE I WANT TO ATTACH MY HITACHI DESKSTAR (80GB) IDE I BOUGHT A IDE TO SATA DEVICE MINI VERTICAL BRIDGE CONVERTER BUT I DONT GET ANY LUCK, THIS ARE STEPS I TRY:
1)PUT TOGETHER THE DVD-ROM AND PRIMARY H.D IN THE IDE SPOT (WORKS FINE)

2) I PLUG THAT CONVERTER IN MY SECOND H.D BUT THE BIOS SHOW ME THAT IS TRYING TO DETECT THE IDE DEVICE AND FOR A WHILE STAY LIKE THAT, LATER REBOOT NORMALY BUT IN WINDOWS ONLY I SEE MY FIRST UNIT AS DRIVE C AND MY DVD-ROM AS DRIVE D BUT NOT THAT SECOND H.D AS ANOTHER UNIT.??

3)I INSTALL THE 2 H.D AS MASTER AND SLAVE IN THE SAME IDE SPOT AND BOTH WORKS FINE BUT MY DVD-ROM IS NOT, LOOKS LIKE DEAD.??

WHAT IS HAPPENING? I AM DOING SOMETHING WRONG??

THANKS FOR ANY HELP

 

[phantomofrussia]

well just to get it straight:
lets call the seagate hard drive A, and the hytachi one B

you attach drive A as master and the dvd-rom as slave on the IDE and it works.

when you attach drive B which is an IDE device. through the converter to the SATA port it does not work.

when you switch the dvd-rom with drive B the system detects both harddrives but not the dvd-rom.

is that correct?

if so:
try a different SATA port. most motherboards now have more than one SATA port. if it works that other SATA port is bad.

if all ports dont work then that converter might not be working.

another thing that i can think of but not be 100 % correct about is if those SATA ports are disabled in the bios.