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

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

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/sl...

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#151646 - 12/03/04 07:53 PM problems getting sata to work with my 2 IDE...help!!
mark_mat stranger Registered: 12/03/04 Posts: 3	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
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#151647 - 12/03/04 08:17 PM Re: problems getting sata to work with my 2 IDE...help!!
jmmijo veteran Registered: 05/29/02 Posts: 1543	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
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#151654 - 12/03/04 09:58 PM Re: problems getting sata to work with my 2 IDE...help!!
peterfields stranger Registered: 12/03/04 Posts: 1	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
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#151678 - 12/04/04 02:30 PM Re: problems getting sata to work with my 2 IDE...help!!
mark_mat stranger Registered: 12/03/04 Posts: 3	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.. :o)
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#151692 - 12/04/04 04:26 PM Re: problems getting sata to work with my 2 IDE...help!!
Wicked101 addict Registered: 09/11/04 Posts: 406 Loc: Germany	Originally posted by Alec§taar: Quote: E.G. -> I had things setup "wrong" (not really wrong but not as well or good as they should/could have been & I found this out as time went on, RAID stuff especially which is why I mention it above not being that stable over long hauls) until about a month ago... i.e. -> Was running my disks in RAID 0 until recently: VERY fast bootups, but that was about all I gained & the raid array stripe? Broke on me 2x... then, I ran my disks as SINGLE DISKS on RAID function, & broke again (both lasted around 4-6 months each). Finally, I learned my BIOS has an option to run & boot from the SATA disks as SINGLE DISKS not governed by the RAID controller firmware & booting from them, & so far? It seems the most stable... took me a year of trying diff. setups to get it right, or what appears to be the BEST for my needs.: Luckily I skipped the effort of trying to install and use my S-ATA with RAID, its a lot nicer to play with RAID in a nice Compaq server with a whole bunch of SCSI Disks [b]Originally posted by Alec§taar: Quote: [b]P.S.=> I just recently popped together an old 486 Dx/133mhz machine to run Windows NT 3.51 here, that has an AMI BIOS & ISA + Vesa Local Bus slots on it... & the BIOS alone? 10x less complex... of course, no "plug-n-play" & you have to jumper & place boards correctly, but honestly? Simpler to work with... even w/ no "PnP"... apk: [/quote] Ahhh, the good ol motherboards I remember them well, jumpers for everything, hee hee.
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