Help: SATA disk won't boot

[mario]

I add a Seagate 300G SATA as Master to my A7N8X Deluxe rev. 2.0 (WinXP with
SP2).
I also have a regular Seagate Ultra ATA 300G in Primary IDE controller as
master
I select the SATA to be the boot disk via BIOS, but The system always boots
with the Regular UltraATA disk. However if I remove the UltraDisk then the
SATA disk will boot!
What did I do wrong?
TIA,
Mariot

 

[Mistoffolees]

I add a Seagate 300G SATA as Master to my A7N8X Deluxe rev. 2.0 (WinXP with
SP2).
I also have a regular Seagate Ultra ATA 300G in Primary IDE controller as
master
I select the SATA to be the boot disk via BIOS, but The system always boots
with the Regular UltraATA disk. However if I remove the UltraDisk then the
SATA disk will boot!
What did I do wrong?
TIA,
Mariot

Haven't really experienced anything like this because the
non-boot hard drives in my systems are usually configured
as extended partitions with logical drives. By chance, do
both the SATA and the Ultra-ATA hard drives carry a primary
partition? Theoretically, if there is a timing problem and
the SATA drive is slowed in spinning up or having its boot
sector read, the Ultra-ATA drive will then take precedence,
if it has a boot track.

 

[pete]

Do you have an option to disable any boot device?
If so disable everything except the cd\dvd drive at the first boot device
and the Sata as the second device.

 

[abc]

Do you have an option to disable any boot device?
If so disable everything except the cd\dvd drive at the first boot device
and the Sata as the second device.

I have an A7V880, and boot from SATA (normally), but If I connect an IDE HDD
to Primary or Secondary IDE for some reason, the BIOS automatically lists it
as First Boot device. This is with an AMI BIOS. I need to go back into the
BIOS and change the boot order again (each time I change the HDD
configuration). This never happened with AWARD BIOSes

Could just be a "feature" of the BIOS.

 

[mario]

Yes and I disable the Ultra, I even select the SATA on all 3 choices, but to
no avail
Thank you for your time.

 

[mario]

Itried with both as Primary then with the UltraATA as secondary but got no
effects!
Thank you for your time.

 

[mario]

I have Award Bios, I re-check the Bios, it still show the SATA as the only
boot disk but in reality it won't boot when the UltraATA hook up!
Thank you for your time.

 

[Natéag]

I had that board. No problem with SATA.
But - seem to recall - the drive had to be made
« active » in the SATA/RAID BIOS.