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post #1 of 6
9/29/04 at 9:00pm
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Hello,

I had to replace my hard drive today. The old HD was a maxtor diamond max plus 9 ultra ata and the new drive is a maxtor SATA.

I pulled the old drive and mounted the new one. I plugged the new drive into the motherboard(asus p4c800e deluxe) via a SATA connector (non-raid slot 1). When I check the bios the primary master IDE shows that nothing is detected (that is where the old HD was), the second master shows my DVD writer and the third master shows the new SATA drive. Is this the way it should be? Should I do something so the primary master is the SATA drive? What happens if I want to remount the old ATA drive for backup storage via the IDE tape?

Thanks,

Bob
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post #2 of 6
9/29/04 at 11:11pm
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Originally Posted by baidarkabob
Hello,

I had to replace my hard drive today. The old HD was a maxtor diamond max plus 9 ultra ata and the new drive is a maxtor SATA.

I pulled the old drive and mounted the new one. I plugged the new drive into the motherboard(asus p4c800e deluxe) via a SATA connector (non-raid slot 1). When I check the bios the primary master IDE shows that nothing is detected (that is where the old HD was), the second master shows my DVD writer and the third master shows the new SATA drive. Is this the way it should be? Should I do something so the primary master is the SATA drive? What happens if I want to remount the old ATA drive for backup storage via the IDE tape?

Thanks,

Bob
That's right. Just make sure the SATA drive is the first boot device. It's not IDE, so it wouldn't show up as an IDE device. IE.. Sata Hardrive, then FLOPPY, then CDROM. Should be a "BOOT" section in your bios.
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post #3 of 6
9/30/04 at 2:54pm
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Thanks for the reply.

One of the things that has me worried is that I never installed a S ATA driver. Does XP do that during the install? If not, would the hard drive work properly without a S ATA driver? Could it work at all? I wonder, because it seems to be working fine, but I am not sure it is working optimally.

The other thing that has me confused is that the new drive is showing up as the third master, even without the the old drive hooked up.

If I add the parallel ATA back in should i adjust the bios to S ATA + P ATA ? Or just leave it at S ATA?

Thanks,

bob
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post #4 of 6
9/30/04 at 3:42pm
you can try it without loading a driver to see if it works, if it doesn't it gives you an option to press F6 and load any drivers that will be needed
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post #5 of 6
9/30/04 at 8:59pm
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Originally Posted by baidarkabob
The other thing that has me confused is that the new drive is showing up as the third master, even without the the old drive hooked up.
Its just because the SATA controller is set as the third (tertiary) ATA controller. The only way to have a first (primary) master is to connect a normal EIDE drive to the primary IDE channel.
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post #6 of 6
10/1/04 at 12:02pm
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Thanks Venom.

What is a good diagnostic tool for testing to see if the hard drive is running up to its reputation?

Thanks,
Bob
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