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Bill Eversole
Hi,
Put together a new system w/ AOpen AX4SG-UN MB, P4 2.8E, WD SATA 80GB
HD, Asus DVD, Lite On DVDRW. Everything worked fine until I tried to
connect my old backup IDE HD to the first IDE port on the motherboard.
System will no longer boot.
Looked in MB manual...it has 5 HD settings in BIOS:
1. Disabled--no SATA drives are present.
2. Auto--SATA drive maps to IDE1 as first boot device if IDE1 is not
occupied.
3. Combined--SATA drives map to IDE1, limiting use to one IDE channel
only.
4. Enhanced--Both IDE channels and 2 SATA drives can be used at same
time, but system boots by default to IDE1 channel.
5. SATA only--Allows you to select booting sequence from SATA1 or
SATA2
What good are two IDE channels when the SATA channel is mapped to one
of them? Maybe I should partition the SATA drive and forget the
separate IDE drive. Any suggestions? There is no option to boot from
SCSI.
Thanks in advance.
Bill
Put together a new system w/ AOpen AX4SG-UN MB, P4 2.8E, WD SATA 80GB
HD, Asus DVD, Lite On DVDRW. Everything worked fine until I tried to
connect my old backup IDE HD to the first IDE port on the motherboard.
System will no longer boot.
Looked in MB manual...it has 5 HD settings in BIOS:
1. Disabled--no SATA drives are present.
2. Auto--SATA drive maps to IDE1 as first boot device if IDE1 is not
occupied.
3. Combined--SATA drives map to IDE1, limiting use to one IDE channel
only.
4. Enhanced--Both IDE channels and 2 SATA drives can be used at same
time, but system boots by default to IDE1 channel.
5. SATA only--Allows you to select booting sequence from SATA1 or
SATA2
What good are two IDE channels when the SATA channel is mapped to one
of them? Maybe I should partition the SATA drive and forget the
separate IDE drive. Any suggestions? There is no option to boot from
SCSI.
Thanks in advance.
Bill