At 09:35 AM 8/16/2005, Chuck Andrews typed:
SATA and IDE hard drives show up in the same order as I understand SCCI
hard drives show up.
What ?
In the BIOS I have to select which drive I want the computer to boot to.
If I am running only a SATA drive and I hook up a IDE drive in addition,
by default the BIOS changes the IDE drive to the main drive or the one to
boot to. I have to remember this and go to the BIOS and change the main
drive back to the SATA drive every time I hook up an additional IDE drive
to run along with the SATA drive. Once I remove all IDE drives, the
computer automatically finds the SATA drive.
Why would you hook up an IDE drive in a system that has "only a SATA drive"
? If you install XP to the SATA drive prior to hooking up the IDE drive
then the SATA drive will remain the boot drive so the only time what you
say happens is if you hook up an IDE drive prior to installing XP & you
wouldn't do that if it's a SATA drive only system.
I am using the Asus P4P800 SE motherboard. The 2 SATA ports are always the
last ones listed in Setup, as the 5th and 6th ones, after the 4 IDE ports.
The order the drives appear in the bios setup has nothing to do with which
drive is the boot drive. I've got another system that boots a Seagate 10k
Cheetah SCSI drive & the SCSI card's bios appears after the system bios but
it still remains the boot drive therefore bios order makes no difference.
Once you have selected the hard drive you want as your main drive, usually
it will come ahead of other hard drives in the boot order.
NOT. If you're saying that it usually the C: drive then you would be
correct but XP can boot from any drive. Most OEMs set the 1st drive as seen
by the bios as the boot drive but it certainly doesn't have to be that way.
Just selecting a drive doesn't automatically make it the 1st drive as that
is determined by the cabling in the system.
You still must ensure there are no bootable devices with bootable media in
them listed ahead of the hard drive you want to boot to.
Not so. I have drives listed ahead of my SATA drives that are bootable but
just aren't set as the Active Primary Partition aka the System Drive. I do
this in case I need to pull the boot drive as all I have to do is set it
active & off I go into Xp. If you're talking about the boot order which has
nothing to do with the order that the bios recognizes the drives in then
you have a point. Even if I have a bootable CDrom drive appear first in the
bios setup screen does NOT mean that the drive will boot even with media in
the drive if the drive is not before the HD in the boot order. Boot order
is the only thing that tells which drive is going to boot if it's even a
bootable drive.
In building new computers I deal with the SATA drive from the beginning.
Even before any Windows mode (Safe or Normal) my BIOS has to see the new
SATA drive in order for it to be partitioned and formatted.
What? Are you trying to say that your Bios has to see the drive before you
can partition or format the drive? If you're partitioning & formatting in
DOS this is true but not true if you prepare the drive from within XP. XP
will many times see drives that your system bios does not altho it is
preferable that the drive can be seen in DOS but who uses that antique OS
anyway? ;-)
Could yours be some issue that your motherboard manufacturer does not
prepare you for as well as my Asus motherboard manufacturer?
Considering we still don't know how well your Asus prepares you for
installing SATA drives I don't know how any one can answer that question. I
was wondering why is it your Asus motherboard manufacturer? Gee, I thought
they made mombos for other people as well.
Or is it some small setting that has not been done?
Isn't that what he asked ?
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Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
<http://www.wavijo.com>
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