SATA vs IDE

[Charlie Berube]

I have 2 identical computers and I have the same problem with both.



I have ASUS P5GC-MX/1333 socket 775 motherboard.

I have a Seagate 80GB SATA/8MB 7200RPM OEM hard drive.

I have an LG GSA-H55N 20X Dual Layer DVD burner (OEM).



My DVD burner is hooked to an IDE cable.

When I try to hook up a slave hard drive to the IDE cable, it does not see
the drive unless I unhook the DVD burner.

I cannot see both the slave drive and the DVD burner at the same time.

I tried different combination of slave and master configurations but I still
cannot see both devices.



I tied with 2 different know good hard drives that worked on other computers
both as masters or slaves.



Would this have anything to do with the fact that my hard drive is SATA and
my DVD burner is IDE?



1.. Ps: I contacted the retailer where I purchased the computers and their
technician indicated that this is the first time he has ever heard of this
happening.
2.. I am also unable to make a "ghost image" of the SATA drive.


Anyone out there help me?

 

[JS]

Did you try the setting the IDE drive's jumper to "Cable Select" (CS).

JS

 

[AJR]

Further regarding JS's response - were "slave"jumper and"master" jumpers set
correctly?

 

[Jerry]

I have 2 identical computers and I have the same problem with both.
I have ASUS P5GC-MX/1333 socket 775 motherboard.
I have a Seagate 80GB SATA/8MB 7200RPM OEM hard drive.
I have an LG GSA-H55N 20X Dual Layer DVD burner (OEM).

My DVD burner is hooked to an IDE cable.

When I try to hook up a slave hard drive to the IDE cable, it does not see
the drive unless I unhook the DVD burner.

I cannot see both the slave drive and the DVD burner at the same time.
I tried different combination of slave and master configurations but I
still cannot see both devices.
I tied with 2 different know good hard drives that worked on other
computers both as masters or slaves.



Would this have anything to do with the fact that my hard drive is SATA
and my DVD burner is IDE?



1.. Ps: I contacted the retailer where I purchased the computers and
their technician indicated that this is the first time he has ever heard
of this happening.
2.. I am also unable to make a "ghost image" of the SATA drive.


Anyone out there help me?

If both ide devices work by themselves on the cable then you have a
jumpering problem. I would suspect that the ide hard drive is probably a
Western Digital, if that is the case then you need to visit their website
and get the correct jumper configuration. WD drives require a different
jumper configuration if they are on a cable by themselves or with another
device.

 

[Andrew E.]

Many pcs need the user to set the BIOS to use both SATA & IDE hd together.
Also,change the IDE connections around.

 

[Lil' Dave]

I have 2 identical computers and I have the same problem with both.



I have ASUS P5GC-MX/1333 socket 775 motherboard.

I have a Seagate 80GB SATA/8MB 7200RPM OEM hard drive.

I have an LG GSA-H55N 20X Dual Layer DVD burner (OEM).



My DVD burner is hooked to an IDE cable.

When I try to hook up a slave hard drive to the IDE cable, it does not see
the drive unless I unhook the DVD burner.

What is "it", the bios and/or XP?

I cannot see both the slave drive and the DVD burner at the same time.

I tried different combination of slave and master configurations but I
still cannot see both devices.



I tied with 2 different know good hard drives that worked on other
computers both as masters or slaves.



Would this have anything to do with the fact that my hard drive is SATA
and my DVD burner is IDE?



1.. Ps: I contacted the retailer where I purchased the computers and
their technician indicated that this is the first time he has ever heard
of this happening.
2.. I am also unable to make a "ghost image" of the SATA drive.

What version of Ghost, and are you using Ghost boot media rather than within
XP for making an image?
Where are you saving the image to?

 

[sgopus]

you can't make an image of your hd because it requires two hd's to be
installed at the same time

 

[sgopus]

sorry that's for cloning.