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IDE drives not detected

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I have an A7V8X with SATA, before the problem started, I had a WD 120gb PATA drive with a CD burner. I then installed a Seagate 160gb SATA drive with a DVD burner (Liteon 812s). Everything worked just fine. But after rebooting the computer ~5 times, every IDE drives disappeared (2 optical drives and 1 hard drive).

The problem is, they're detected with no problems in the BIOS, but when I get in Windows XP, I only see the 2 partitions of the SATA drive. (Windows is installed on the SATA drive but the boot sector (is that the name?) is on the PATA drive.)

At first I thought it was a powersupply problem (Antec TruPower 430w), so I unplugged the 2 optical drives, but it didn't change anything. I tried changer the jumpers on every drive, changed the IDE channel, tested one at a time; nothing worked.

Does anyone know what could be the problem?
 
where the old drives dynamic disks?
based on what you said these drives are "new" to the SATA OS install correct?
and they have never been recognized ? or the slowly disappeared? when viewed from inside the new OS?

review the manual to verify the BIOS options
look for a bus manager
and verify that both are to be employed (SATA + PATA)

you will also likely see a performance hit as Windows XP doesnt like dealing with both
(supposedly addressed in SP2) however its unlikely youd be able to percieve it execpt in benchmarks
sort of depends on your access pattern
 
Ice Czar said:
where the old drives dynamic disks?
based on what you said these drives are "new" to the SATA OS install correct?
and they have never been recognized ? or the slowly disappeared? when viewed from inside the new OS?

review the manual to verify the BIOS options
look for a bus manager
and verify that both are to be employed (SATA + PATA)

you will also likely see a performance hit as Windows XP doesnt like dealing with both
(supposedly addressed in SP2) however its unlikely youd be able to percieve it execpt in benchmarks
sort of depends on your access pattern
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No, after installing the SATA drive, I formatted everything like new.

And they were recognized, but disappeared after rebooting.
 
meaning at some point the PATA drives where visible in the new OS?
 
OK I fixed it, I just installed the IDE Bus Master from ViaArena, and everything worked.

Thanks anyway.
 
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