I have a One WD 120GB SATA HDD, One WD 120GB SE ATA-133 HDD, 16x DVD-ROM Drive, and 52x24x52x CD-RW Drive. I have the ATA HDD Plugged into the Primary IDE Channel and the two optical drives plugged into the Secondary IDE Channel. Then I have the SATA HDD plugged into the Serial Connector. When I power on it will detect only the Secondary IDE channel. I need the extra space, and would like to get it working without buying an IDE/SATA adapter for the PATA HDD. I'm using and MSI 865PE Neo2-FISR motherboard. Any help will be appreciated.
u sure u got the jumpers right? IE... cdrom master, dvd rom slave? didnt read it probaly sorry lmao what a ***, didnt read it at all probaly!! sorry man
It's setup like the following: Primary IDE Channel Master: 120GB WD SE HDD (No Jumpers) Primary IDE Channel Slave: None Secondary IDE Channel Master: DVD-ROM (Jumpered to Master) Secondary IDE Channel Slave: CD-RW (Jumpered to Slave) The Motherboard will only read the devices on the Secondary IDE Channel and not the first. IE if I plug the optical drives into the Primary Channel and the IDE HDD into the Secondary Channel, I can see the HDD but not the Optical Drives.
you need to jumper it to master or cable select, the drive won't detect if you take the jumper away. edit: just re-read your post . sound like your mobo is broken. Have you swapped the cables around to check its not a bung ide cable?
Both the cable and mobo are fine, as they both will work if I disable SATA in BIOS. Also the IDE drive is a Western Digital and if you put a WD HDD by itself on a channel you have to leave the jumper off or it will not detect.
A random shot in the dark: I remember when shopping around for my motherboard that some MSI boards have SATA/PATA raid ie one PATA and one SATA drive RAID'ed. Maybe this is on (if your board has it) ? Does the SATA drive work on its own?
I think i remember some boards saying that they have one of the PATA channels disabled if the SATA is used... Check the manual to see if it says anything about this (boring i know, but worth a try), if no-one has a solution and the manual says nothing, then i'd say it's a dead mobo and it's time to buy a new one
Yes I think thats the 'feature' I was thinking of, think thats one of the reasons I didnt get one Try it without the PATA hard drive, see if it sees the SATA.
I got both HDD's and both optical drives to detect in BIOS, and all four drives show up in device manager, but not in my computer (ie not recieving a drive letter.) Any suggestions edit: forgot to create a new partition in disk management, everything is working now...ended up having to enable Legacy Mode as opposed to Native Mode in the BIOS. Thanks for the help
