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Hard Drives cant be run simultaneous

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NotSoSimple

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Motherboard: Abit IC7-G Max2

It came with a Serillel adapter so I plugged it in and ran my 60GB which is my OS drive, off of my onboard SATA. It boots up good and loads fine. Then I realize my 160gb drive still on the IDE chain will not show up.

I play with the jumpers, cant get it to show. I unplugged my CD-RW and plugged the 160gb on thier, and now neither the 160gb o=or DVD thats on the same chain are not being recognized. SATA is given me problems like crazy. This needs to be fixed ASAP!
 
was the 160 formated or installed after the OS was installed?

Check the computer management tool under control panel and see if it is showing up as a logical drive.. you may just have to add it in through there before it shows up under my computer...
 
Ive had this dual HardDrive setup running for about 3 months now. They were both on IDE. I had no problems what so ever with them before.

Now that I put my OS drive on SATA, I cannot see my Storage drive. I checked computer management and its not thier eaither. Its got to be my SATA settings.
 
Did you read through the newegg customer reviews of your board... I just read through several and it seems the serial ATA controller gives a lot of people problems... I saw some people say you couldn't use the intel bridge you had to use the silicon controller others said the opposite... have you tried switching which SATA pin connector you use (I'm sure you have but had to ask) b/c that can control which controller is being used.. I know in my gigabyte board it has the same functions and in the bios there are settings to change how the SATA controller issues the default primary and secondary channels. I don't have your board so I'm not much help but just with mine there were tons of settings.. sorry I'm not much help.. I have no experience with your board so I'm probably no good to you... good luck though ...
 
Am at work right now and I will experiment later.

Actually I have not tried to switch which SATA connector it goes to. I automatically assumed it had to beplugged into the SATA 1 Port. Would it matter what port im using since the SATA drive is my bootable OS drive?
 
I'm only speaking from my board but your board also has the same SATA functions mine does... I don't think it should but it wouldnt' hurt to try the different set of two on your board... you actually have two SATA controllers on your board... silicon chipset and your south bridge both controller a set of 2 channels... meaning maybe one of them might be messed up... not for sure about the lay out but mine were two on top of each other top two were related and bottom two were related... try it and see... can't hurt anything .. I hope :) If not I'd keep messing with the bios control .... good luck...
 
THanks codename..Since youve been the only one of the board of 133tness to post :p. Ill check it out tonight when i get home fom the office.
 
Fixed it :D. Was hesitant about BIOS Flash..But then decided to take the plunge. Flashed by IC7-G from the stock BIOS to the newest v22. Works great now! Thanks codename for everything.
 
Glad it worked out for you.... although I don't think I helped very much.... an up to date bios though is always a good idea :)
 
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