P5AD-2 Premium - IDE configuration.

[Rod]

The manual is not giving me a very clear picture of the mapping of IDE
drives on this board. Been trying to get it to detect a Maxtor ATA133
HDD as the main boot drive on the red IDE connector and a standard
CD/R/W on the blue primary IDE connector.
Windows XP set up tells me it can't find a hard drive.
What do I need to set in the BIOS to do this. I could get round it by
installing the CD and HD as master & slave on the primary IDE
connector but that isn't going to help me understand how this thing
works. Also the physical layout of the case (HDs mounted sideways
instead of front to back) means I would need a cable with a much
longer space between the master and slave connectors, than any I have.

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Rod

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[stevem]

The manual is not giving me a very clear picture of the mapping of IDE
drives on this board. Been trying to get it to detect a Maxtor ATA133
HDD as the main boot drive on the red IDE connector and a standard
CD/R/W on the blue primary IDE connector.
Windows XP set up tells me it can't find a hard drive.
What do I need to set in the BIOS to do this. I could get round it by
installing the CD and HD as master & slave on the primary IDE
connector but that isn't going to help me understand how this thing
works. Also the physical layout of the case (HDs mounted sideways
instead of front to back) means I would need a cable with a much
longer space between the master and slave connectors, than any I have.

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Rod

Weed my email address to reply.
http://website.lineone.net/~rodcraddock/index.html

Rod,

The red IDE connector is not controlled by the southbridge, but rather is on
the ITE8212 controller. For set-up, you need to have the ITE8212 driver on a
floppy, and then use F6 during the early part of set-up to install the
driver. Thereafter, set-up should see the drive.
Regards,
Steve