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Guys, i hace the above mb with two hd's as master & slave on IDE 1,
and a cdrw & cd rom as master & slave od IDE2.

I have just been given a dvd drive - can I use this on IDE3?
I plugged it in, but no joy.

TIA for any advice

Mark
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

I think you need to enable IDE3 in the BIOS.

Cheers.

Si


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"Mark Epps" <mark.nospam.epps@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> Guys, i hace the above mb with two hd's as master & slave on IDE 1,
> and a cdrw & cd rom as master & slave od IDE2.
>
> I have just been given a dvd drive - can I use this on IDE3?
> I plugged it in, but no joy.
>
> TIA for any advice
>
> Mark
>
>
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

"Mark Epps" <mark.nospam.epps@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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| Guys, i hace the above mb with two hd's as master & slave on IDE 1,
| and a cdrw & cd rom as master & slave od IDE2.
|
| I have just been given a dvd drive - can I use this on IDE3?
| I plugged it in, but no joy.
|
| TIA for any advice
|
| Mark
|
|
In most cases, ATAPI drives will only be recognised when connected to the
primary IDE sockets. Move your hard disks to IDE3, In fact, you may find
that Windows prefers to boot from IDE3 when it is enabled in the BIOS.
John
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

"Mark Epps" <mark.nospam.epps@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:cdpfj2$jmh$1@titan.btinternet.com...
> Guys, i hace the above mb with two hd's as master & slave on IDE 1,
> and a cdrw & cd rom as master & slave od IDE2.
>
> I have just been given a dvd drive - can I use this on IDE3?
> I plugged it in, but no joy.
>
> TIA for any advice
>
> Mark
>
>

IDE 3 & 4 are the ITE Gigaraid ports .... you'll need to enable them in the
bios and install the drivers for them in windows. Should work ok after that
..... let us know

Mal
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

thanks for the help so far...

enabled onboard raid

enabled gigaraid & set it to ata

put hard drives on ide3

set bios bootup to hdd3 (also tried 0,1 & 2)

but the best I could achieve was that gigaraid detected the 2 hard drives,

but after that it would continually re-boot!

running bios f5 by-the-way & win xp home

any ideas?

tia
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

"Mark Epps" <mark.nospam.epps@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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| thanks for the help so far...
|
| enabled onboard raid
|
| enabled gigaraid & set it to ata
|
| put hard drives on ide3
|
| set bios bootup to hdd3 (also tried 0,1 & 2)
|
| but the best I could achieve was that gigaraid detected the 2 hard drives,
|
| but after that it would continually re-boot!
|
| running bios f5 by-the-way & win xp home
|
| any ideas?
|
| tia
|
|
Hi Mark,

I have all four IDE ports enabled in the BIOS, but no RAID drivers
installed. I boot from a FAT32 drive on the main IDE controller port 1
master - Winp XP Pro. All other connections on the main IDE controller are
used by or reserved for ATAPI devices. The other IDE controller has
removable hard disk trays and I install various combinations or FAT32 or
NTFS drives as needed. I installed Windows before fitting any other hard
drives. Windows in its wisdom wants to default to booting from the master
disk on port 1 of the second controller, and does if I install a disk with
an operating system on it. As I only use my data disks in the second
controller, it words reliably for me.

Maybe you need to look at disk management and see which drive Windows wants
to be the first and plan accordingly.
John
 
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"Mark Epps" <mark.nospam.epps@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:cds3s9$fkf$1@titan.btinternet.com...
> thanks for the help so far...
>
> enabled onboard raid
>
> enabled gigaraid & set it to ata
>
> put hard drives on ide3
>
> set bios bootup to hdd3 (also tried 0,1 & 2)
>
> but the best I could achieve was that gigaraid detected the 2 hard drives,
>
> but after that it would continually re-boot!
>
> running bios f5 by-the-way & win xp home
>
> any ideas?
>
> tia
>
>

try updating the bios ... @Bios reported latest was F8 last time I used it
... but on the Gigabyte UK website they had F9 which I downloaded and am
running now with no problems .. touch wood

Mal
 
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"Mal" <mincer2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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|
| "Mark Epps" <mark.nospam.epps@btinternet.com> wrote in message
| news:cds3s9$fkf$1@titan.btinternet.com...
| > thanks for the help so far...
| >
| > enabled onboard raid
| >
| > enabled gigaraid & set it to ata
| >
| > put hard drives on ide3
| >
| > set bios bootup to hdd3 (also tried 0,1 & 2)
| >
| > but the best I could achieve was that gigaraid detected the 2 hard
drives,
| >
| > but after that it would continually re-boot!
| >
| > running bios f5 by-the-way & win xp home
| >
| > any ideas?
| >
| > tia
| >
| >
|
| try updating the bios ... @Bios reported latest was F8 last time I used it
| .. but on the Gigabyte UK website they had F9 which I downloaded and am
| running now with no problems .. touch wood
|
| Mal
|
|
Mal, I have ver F10 firmware, I downloaded it from the main site. Fixes
another bug.
John
 
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"John" <john@removebigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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>
> "Mal" <mincer2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:41039f66$0$6440$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com...
> |
> | "Mark Epps" <mark.nospam.epps@btinternet.com> wrote in message
> | news:cds3s9$fkf$1@titan.btinternet.com...
> | > thanks for the help so far...
> | >
> | > enabled onboard raid
> | >
> | > enabled gigaraid & set it to ata
> | >
> | > put hard drives on ide3
> | >
> | > set bios bootup to hdd3 (also tried 0,1 & 2)
> | >
> | > but the best I could achieve was that gigaraid detected the 2 hard
> drives,
> | >
> | > but after that it would continually re-boot!
> | >
> | > running bios f5 by-the-way & win xp home
> | >
> | > any ideas?
> | >
> | > tia
> | >
> | >
> |
> | try updating the bios ... @Bios reported latest was F8 last time I used
it
> | .. but on the Gigabyte UK website they had F9 which I downloaded and am
> | running now with no problems .. touch wood
> |
> | Mal
> |
> |
> Mal, I have ver F10 firmware, I downloaded it from the main site. Fixes
> another bug.
> John
>
>

thanks for that John I hadn't checked the site for a while .. downloaded it
now
 
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