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More info?)
Tried that - no change. The drive must be faulty.
"MC"
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> All good stuff but irrelevant to seing a drive in the BIOS!
>
> Check the SATA data cable is attached correctly AND EITHER SATA power OR
> molex power cables
>
>
> "Paul" <nospam@needed.com> wrote in message
> news:nospam-0505041255290001@192.168.1.177...
> > In article <c7arh9$fa2$1@news5.svr.pol.co.uk>, "xyz" <dont@spamme.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've just bought a 160 GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 8MB Cache 7200rpm
> ATA133
> > > drive but am having problems getting my ASUS P4P800 Deluxe to see it.
> Can
> > > anyone help?
> > >
> > > Cheers in advance
> >
> > Does your BIOS have entries like this ?
> >
> > "Onboard IDE Operate Mode" [Compatible]
> > "IDE Port Settings" [P-ATA Ports Only]
> >
> > How you set the IDE Operate Mode is a function of the OS
> > or OSes you plan on using. The above two settings will
> > ensure you can see a PATA drive, on either Win98 or WInXP.
> >
> > The thing is, Win98 doesn't know what SATA is, and the
> > chip makers decided it would be cool if the SATA drive
> > was wired in logic, to look like it was one of the PATA
> > cables. That is called Compatible mode. Since PATA only
> > supports four drives, in Compatible mode you can have
> > any mix of pairs of PATA or SATA drives, as long as there
> > aren't more than four drives involved. (If there was a
> > way to get a native mode driver, then maybe this could
> > be changed - I'm just reading the manual
🙂
> >
> > In WinXP, using the Enhanced mode apparently makes the
> > drives look like they are on the PCI bus. Something that
> > Win98 wouldn't understand, as normally IDE devices have
> > fixed I/O addresses for their control. In Enhanced mode,
> > the [S-ATA] setting is the fastest setting, and will allow
> > all six drives (2xSATA, 4xPATA) on the Southbridge
> > to be used.
> >
> > So, try the above two BIOS settings, as that should at least
> > make your PATA IDE drives work.
> >
> > If you are bored, there is an Intel document. It explains
> > in more technical detail the hardware remapping, if you
> > are interested.
> >
> > "ICH5 SATA Programmers Reference Manual"
> >
http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/manuals/25267102.pdf
> >
> > HTH,
> > Paul
>
>