SATA

[Mike]

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Six-month-old K7SOM+ mobo, 1800 AMD Duron, SiS chipset, Windows Me.
I've been using a 60Gb HDD but now started video editing and run out of
space so I went out and got a 160Gb SATA Maxtor and connected it as slave to
the 60 Gb HDD.

The BIOS sees it on auto detect but doesn't display the details (cyls, heads
etc). The Windows OS doesn't see it at all - is this a limitation of the
mobo, or the WMe, or what?

Is there any way out of this apart from a new mobo (& CPU) and maybe Win XP?

Mike

 

[Stephen]

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On Sat, 8 May 2004 23:46:09 +0100, "mike" <nospam@nospam.com> tortured
a bunch of electrons for some unknown reason:

>Six-month-old K7SOM+ mobo, 1800 AMD Duron, SiS chipset, Windows Me.
>I've been using a 60Gb HDD but now started video editing and run out of
>space so I went out and got a 160Gb SATA Maxtor and connected it as slave to
>the 60 Gb HDD.

SATA doesn't use master/slave, it's currently only one drive per
channel.

>
>The BIOS sees it on auto detect but doesn't display the details (cyls, heads
>etc). The Windows OS doesn't see it at all - is this a limitation of the
>mobo, or the WMe, or what?
>

The BIOS should at least say what size the drive is. Windows won't
assign a drive letter until it is fdisked and formatted.

>Is there any way out of this apart from a new mobo (& CPU) and maybe Win XP?
>
>Mike
>
>

 

[mcr]

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mike wrote:
> Six-month-old K7SOM+ mobo, 1800 AMD Duron, SiS chipset, Windows Me.
> I've been using a 60Gb HDD but now started video editing and run out of
> space so I went out and got a 160Gb SATA Maxtor and connected it as slave to
> the 60 Gb HDD.
>
> The BIOS sees it on auto detect but doesn't display the details (cyls, heads
> etc). The Windows OS doesn't see it at all - is this a limitation of the
> mobo, or the WMe, or what?
>
> Is there any way out of this apart from a new mobo (& CPU) and maybe Win XP?
>
> Mike
>
>
>

Windows will not see it until it is formatted and assigned a drive letter.

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