I have the p4p800 Deluxe and tried running one serial ATA and one Parallel
ATA drive. It killed the Parallel drive. Won't recognize it. Anyone else
have this problem?
Also this thing takes forever to boot up on the Serial drive.
I doubt anything has died or been killed.
The bios of this board appears to preferentially recognize drives on the
primary IDE channel. You need to hit the "delete" key when the system first
starts to boot up. Look at the boot options, both the boot order and the
boot drives under hard drives. Also, you need to be sure where the problem
is, e.g. in the bios or in the operating system (I'm assuming W2K or XP
here). If the drive, any drive, is not formatted, Windows will not
recognize its existence. In order for the drive to be recognized and show
up in such places as "Windows Explorer," you need to go to Control
Panel->Administrative Tools->Disk Management. You will see all your
recognized drives, from a hardware, not a software, perspective. The drives
must have a "drive signature" put on first and then need to be partitioned
and formatted before they will show up as drives in the software side, e.g.
in places like Windows Explorer and "My Computer." Once you write the drive
signature on the drive and format it, it will show up on the software side.
Obviously, you need to take care with the boot order and order of hard
drives if you are installing an operating system on one of these drives! I
suggest omitting any drives from the hard drive boot order that are not
going to be bootable, e.g. don't have an operating system on them.
Good luck,
ken
