A8N32-SLI Boot HD SATA + 2 SATA can't add slave EIDE drive

Sennaha · Post by **Sennaha** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 1:27 pm

I have an Asus AN832-SLI mobo. The current setup is a WD 74GB Raptor to boot Win XP, 2 SATA WD 320GB RAID 0. (also in another post) I tried to add an old WD 160GB EIDE drive, to get data transfered to the new SATA drives. When the computer boots it tries to boot off the EIDE slave drive. I have the jumper on the EIDE drive to slave. The BIOS doesn't even show the SATA drives. When I disconnect the EIDE HD (slave drive), it returns to normal, and the BIOS recognizes the right SATA drives.

Any thoughts on getting the EIDE drive to work with my current SATA's?

MegaVectra · Post by **MegaVectra** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 1:38 pm

Set the IDE drive jumper to cable select.

ZYFER · Post by **ZYFER** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 1:40 pm

You may want to check the boot options in the bios to make sure it is set correctly.

Sennaha · Post by **Sennaha** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 1:41 pm

Thanks. I will post if I am successful or not.

Sennaha · Post by **Sennaha** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:24 pm

No luck. I used the cable select jumper, and went into the BIOS to try and setup to boot off of my current SATA drive. BIOS recognizes all drives, but in the boot menu only recognized the IDE drive not the SATA's. When I remove the IDE drive, the BIOS boot menu shows the SATA drives. I'm thinking maybe if the board see's an IDE primary plugged in, it will only show anything from IDE as a bootable device?

ZYFER · Post by **ZYFER** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:22 pm

When you start the computer, most motherboards nowadays alot you to hit another key (usually F8, it displays which one it is) to choose what to boot from. Obviously this isn't a real solution. I am surprised you can't just select the hard drive in the boot option and change it to another drive.

two slow · Post by **two slow** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:44 pm

When I set mine up with 2 sata in raid and an eide drive I had to put the boot record on the eide drive. I don't know if this is still the way you have to do this though.

Sennaha · Post by **Sennaha** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:58 pm

Got it working. Had to go into boot menu, and a couple of items below boot priority to hard drives and select the correct one. I was later able to go into boot priority and select the SATA drive.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions