Ihatefishsauce wrote:
Hi. Just joined this group because I need some help.

I have a P5GDC-V Deluxe (sat in garage for about two years until last
week)
I just got my order from Newegg:

2 WD Caviar SATA2 320GB drives
2 sony DVD burners
2 GB RAM
Mitsumi floppy/integrated with media reader (SDC, etc.)
Intel 560 3.4 Ghz P4
Ultra Xconnect 500watt power supply (waiting on the 20-24 pin power
cable from them)

here is the burning question, since SATA is a new thing to me:

I want both drives to be separate (C, D)
I want to put DVD burners (IDE) on separate IDE channels

How exactly do I do this? What steps do I take first. Can someone
explain how to do this up to and including loading the OS which will
be.........XP Pro!

Thanks to all the smarter than me people.


The P5GDC-V Deluxe has one IDE port on the Southbridge, and two IDE
ports on the 8212F. Personally, I would place both DVD burners on the
Southbridge interface, as that is likely to be the most seamless way
of using them. Less hassle if the DVD burners ever need a firmware
update and so on. Booting from them, should also be easier on the
Southbridge. (I'd feel more comfortable putting IDE hard drives
on the 8212F.)

The BIOS defaults ("Standard IDE", "Enhanced Mode") should support
installation without pressing F6. To do that, you'd want a WinXP
SP1 or SP2 install disk, as they have a PCI address space native
Microsoft driver in them. If your install disk is original WinXP,
you can use a tool like Autostreamer, to make a new install CD that
includes one of the two service packs.

For the SATA drives, just plug them in.

You don't need to use the adapter for the 20 pin power supply. The
20 pin should plug into the 24 pin connector. You can see the
commonality of pins between the two of them, in these docs. The
pictures here, are of the cable ends on the PSU. The pin 1 end is the
same on both connectors.

http://www.formfactors.org/developer...X12V_1_3dg.pdf (pg.29)
http://www.formfactors.org/developer...public_br2.pdf (pg.36)

Paul