Getting to grips with SATA

[Jordan]

I got a Maxtor 120Gig SATA HDD, boots up fine when it's the only drive
on my computer. The BIOS (Award) is set to HDD-0.
Now, I'd like to install my old 60Gig Seagate as a Slave (was the
Master) so I can access the data.
I set the jumpers on it for Slave operation, but booting up the computer
fails when the Seagate is attached. It seems to want to boot from the
old drive, even though it is set as Slave.
I tried cabling it up to the primary, and also tried secondary IDE
header, as HDD-1 and various other selections, to no avail.
I downloaded and installed the last BIOS upgrade for the Gigabyte
m'board - no change.
Any ideas, folks?

 

[Avid Gamer]

I did the same thing, i formated the drive on my old system, then
attached it and booted it up and was fine.

The i put boot SATA first IDE1 or whatever your ATA drive is on and
cdrom next.

And all was fine, no reason why your wont do so, unless your tried to
boot IDE2 and your drive is on 1, does not matter if its Slave or
master if its on the one ide channel, which it is ?

As mine is and my ide2 is my cdrom.

Hmm no reason why it shoudl nto work, unless the drives are no
compatible, and SATA is alittle crap with some systems.

Someone else will help ya.

 

[Jordan]

Thanks AG
It's working now - boots from the new SATA drive, and the old
(non-serial) ATA drive is readable.
The method was to change BIOS settings so as to boot from a SCSI device.
The SATA drive had been working as HDD-0 too, but only when it was the
only connected hard drive.

 

[Jordan]

Thanks AG
It's working now - boots from the new SATA drive, and the old
(non-serial) ATA drive is readable.
The method was to change BIOS settings so as to boot from a SCSI device.
The SATA drive had been working as HDD-0 too, but when it was the only
connected hard drive.