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Boot from SATA w/ IDE drives in Mobile Racks
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A client of mine has an AOpen AX4SG-UN motherboard. Recently his IDE boot drive went bad, and he replaced it with a Seagate 250 GB SATA drive. With the new SATA drive set as his boot drive, the primary IDE port is disabled in BIOS. There is no BIOS setting to get around this restriction. I have read the manual forwards and backwards and AOpen tech support confirms that when the SATA drive is set as boot drive in BIOS, the primary IDE port on the motherboard is disabled. My client still wants to use some of his older IDE drives for music and pictures, so he purchased some Mobile Racks to use for that purpose, but since his primary IDE port on the motherboard is disabled, he has no way to get the rack drives to work. My question is: If he purchases a PCI IDE controller card, can he plug his rack drives into the controller card, and still boot from the SATA drive? TIA Bill ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Boot from SATA w/ IDE drives in Mobile Racks
"Bill Eversole" wrote in message ... Hello, A client of mine has an AOpen AX4SG-UN motherboard. Recently his IDE boot drive went bad, and he replaced it with a Seagate 250 GB SATA drive. With the new SATA drive set as his boot drive, the primary IDE port is disabled in BIOS. There is no BIOS setting to get around this restriction. I have read the manual forwards and backwards and AOpen tech support confirms that when the SATA drive is set as boot drive in BIOS, the primary IDE port on the motherboard is disabled. My client still wants to use some of his older IDE drives for music and pictures, so he purchased some Mobile Racks to use for that purpose, but since his primary IDE port on the motherboard is disabled, he has no way to get the rack drives to work. My question is: If he purchases a PCI IDE controller card, can he plug his rack drives into the controller card, and still boot from the SATA drive? TIA Bill ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- you said that your friend has a SATA drive in which he boots from, why on earth did he disable the IDE drive option in his bios anyway i use windows and ubuntu on a SATA drive perfectly and still able to use my IDE drives for storage purposes. why does he think he needs an IDE controller card in the first place it is integrated on the mobo, the controller cards are really there for if you want extra drives in your computer system |
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Boot from SATA w/ IDE drives in Mobile Racks
Squibbly wrote:
"Bill Eversole" wrote in message ... Hello, A client of mine has an AOpen AX4SG-UN motherboard. Recently his IDE boot drive went bad, and he replaced it with a Seagate 250 GB SATA drive. With the new SATA drive set as his boot drive, the primary IDE port is disabled in BIOS. There is no BIOS setting to get around this restriction. I have read the manual forwards and backwards and AOpen tech support confirms that when the SATA drive is set as boot drive in BIOS, the primary IDE port on the motherboard is disabled. My client still wants to use some of his older IDE drives for music and pictures, so he purchased some Mobile Racks to use for that purpose, but since his primary IDE port on the motherboard is disabled, he has no way to get the rack drives to work. My question is: If he purchases a PCI IDE controller card, can he plug his rack drives into the controller card, and still boot from the SATA drive? TIA Bill ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- you said that your friend has a SATA drive in which he boots from, why on earth did he disable the IDE drive option in his bios anyway i use windows and ubuntu on a SATA drive perfectly and still able to use my IDE drives for storage purposes. why does he think he needs an IDE controller card in the first place it is integrated on the mobo, the controller cards are really there for if you want extra drives in your computer system Thanks for your reply. It caused me to revisit the BIOS. I had misinterpreted these words from the manual, "Enhanced Mode: If you are using the latest operating system (say, Windows XP, Windows.NET Server), it is highly recommended to select Enhanced Mode. The system would be able to detect all six devices (traditional IDE x4, Serial ATA x 2) completely and functions perfectly under this mode. But please be noted that it is defaulted with using traditional IDE as the first boot device." Changing the SATA setting from auto to enhanced allowed the system to recognize up to 4 IDE drives and 2 SATA drives. Another separate BIOS setting--one I did not see before and not listed in the manual--allows a person to set the hard drive boot priority. Moving the SATA drive to the top of the boot priority list allowed the SATA drive to boot first. Thanks again!!!! Bill ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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