This problem is very similar to the previous post, a very tedious and frustrating glitch i'm afraid.
I too have just upgraded my case and upon attempting to set up my two IBM 30GB Deskstars as Primary and Secondary Masters with the CD-ROM as Primary Slave, the secondary master failed to show up in the auto-detect Award BIOS, in fact i didn't even hear it power up.
So, i've swapped the configuration so that the two HDDs are Master/Slave on the Primary and the CD-ROM is Seondary Master. This works fine. Either HDD will act as Primary Master or slave so there are no probs with the disks.
However, i have had both disks as 1st & 2nd masters previously without any problems on the same board, so what gives?
I don't have a controller card for these disks.
I am wondering if this could be the power supply? This seems unlikely, but there can't be anything wrong with the IDE channels or cables (i have switched them around)as they will accept the Primary Master/Slave for the HDDs and the 2nd Master CD-ROM?
This is more an annoyance than a drastic problem, it's not like i'm running a RAID setup here, but i would like to know why this is happening and you know once you start getting these problems how they tend to pile-up in future (Law of Entropy, i believe?!).
Anyway, any help or suggestions would be much appreciated here.
Cheers in advance
I too have just upgraded my case and upon attempting to set up my two IBM 30GB Deskstars as Primary and Secondary Masters with the CD-ROM as Primary Slave, the secondary master failed to show up in the auto-detect Award BIOS, in fact i didn't even hear it power up.
So, i've swapped the configuration so that the two HDDs are Master/Slave on the Primary and the CD-ROM is Seondary Master. This works fine. Either HDD will act as Primary Master or slave so there are no probs with the disks.
However, i have had both disks as 1st & 2nd masters previously without any problems on the same board, so what gives?
I don't have a controller card for these disks.
I am wondering if this could be the power supply? This seems unlikely, but there can't be anything wrong with the IDE channels or cables (i have switched them around)as they will accept the Primary Master/Slave for the HDDs and the 2nd Master CD-ROM?
This is more an annoyance than a drastic problem, it's not like i'm running a RAID setup here, but i would like to know why this is happening and you know once you start getting these problems how they tend to pile-up in future (Law of Entropy, i believe?!).
Anyway, any help or suggestions would be much appreciated here.
Cheers in advance
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