Hi all!
I am using a Gigabyte GA-K8NS-939 board and running an 80GB SATA drive for my main, and as it stands, lone means of storage. My motherboard has 2 SATA slots and 2 IDE slots (IDE1/IDE2.) On IDE1...I have my DVD burner. I am now wanting to add a second HDD for storage and such, and it is an IDE.
When I tried to install the IDE HDD on IDE2, I set the jumper to Master (even tried cable select) and neither my BIOS, nor Windows would recognize the device whatsoever. I attempted to place the drive as a Slave (and cable select) on IDE1, leaving my DVD drive as master, but IIRC, that didn't work (pretty sure, though not 100% that I did try this), and regardless this wasn't much of a permanent solution because the IDE cable wouldn't reach to the HDD (leaving the HDD dangling.)
Is there some mystical way to making this work? Am I doing/not doing something?
I would VERY GREATLY appreciate answers if you can provide them.
I am using a Gigabyte GA-K8NS-939 board and running an 80GB SATA drive for my main, and as it stands, lone means of storage. My motherboard has 2 SATA slots and 2 IDE slots (IDE1/IDE2.) On IDE1...I have my DVD burner. I am now wanting to add a second HDD for storage and such, and it is an IDE.
When I tried to install the IDE HDD on IDE2, I set the jumper to Master (even tried cable select) and neither my BIOS, nor Windows would recognize the device whatsoever. I attempted to place the drive as a Slave (and cable select) on IDE1, leaving my DVD drive as master, but IIRC, that didn't work (pretty sure, though not 100% that I did try this), and regardless this wasn't much of a permanent solution because the IDE cable wouldn't reach to the HDD (leaving the HDD dangling.)
Is there some mystical way to making this work? Am I doing/not doing something?
I would VERY GREATLY appreciate answers if you can provide them.