problems getting sata to work with my 2 IDE...help!!

#1 mark_mat

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Posted 03 December 2004 - 08:53 PM

hey all,
i have a MSI Neo 875P board and have used the 2 IDE slots for 2 cd rom's and 2 hard drives and have space for 2 sata drives. but...i cant for the life of me work out how to detect this...been into BIOS and it mentions 3rd ide master/slave but surely this doesnt relate to sata..?!

any idea's?!

many thanks dudes

#2 jmmijo

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Posted 03 December 2004 - 09:17 PM

Many 875/865 motherboards have an option in the BIOS for ENHANCED mode IDE/SATA control. Usually the default setting is AUTO so you need to change this to ENHANCED which will only work under Windows 2000/XP and not under Win 9x

#3 peterfields

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Posted 03 December 2004 - 10:58 PM

My SATA disk works fine but when I add an IDE storage disk from last PC (no OS)it will show in device manager but not in 'My Computer' I have disabled it in the bios (if not disabled it tries to boot from it, not the SATA)
2 days of talking to tech support have drawn a blank and cost a fortune Any geniuses there.
Peter

#4 mark_mat

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Posted 04 December 2004 - 03:30 PM

hey

thanks for the replies guys..
i found out how:

i went into the BIOS and enabled the sata option to enable, then went to device manager and found the drive, formatted etc and is working like a dream! i have 3 hdd's now, partitioned into 5! never be too safe!!

thanks again, this site is the best for tech issues for sure..

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