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okay, sending out a geekish APB | by cybergeek | 2005-01-27 16:48:53 |
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possible jumper setting on the board? | by Ihavebigpiranha | 2005-01-27 17:12:25 |
| well, i think i need to clarify a bit... |
by cybergeek |
2005-01-27 17:18:17 |
the bios has two settings for looking at sata drives: raid, or NOT raid.
right now, it's set to NOT raid, so it uses the drives as normal IDE drives.
when i connected an ide hard drive with no boot record to the slave plug on the secondary IDE cord, and left the SATA drive connected as it was, the bios couldn't find a bootable disk.
my theory is that when it finds a physical ide drive - ANY ide drive - it assigns that drive to ide0 and anything after that would be ide1 ide2 etc.
ide0 is the only ide option in my bios' current list of places to look for boot records.
thus, having found a physical ide drive (ide0) with no boot record, it didn't bother to check the SATA drive (ide1) because it wasn't told to do so, and thus, the machine could not boot.
am i making sense here? on the right track? being logical? deserving of a cookie? ;) |
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Gives a cookie . . . | by imwacc0 | 2005-01-27 17:28:49 |
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hmm, dunno about usin both simultaneously, | by Ihavebigpiranha | 2005-01-27 17:56:49 |
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got a link to one o' thems? (n/t) | by cybergeek | 2005-01-27 18:45:00 |
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just about any pc store should have/be able to get | by Ihavebigpiranha | 2005-01-27 20:32:54 |
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