SATA and IDE drives. Having problems getting it to recognize the IDE drive?

Question

Ok, Have a system with SATA hard drive and I am trying to install an IDE drive on the system. Only have one IDE port and currently have 2 CD/DVD drives using that. So I bought a SATA 2 IDE Adaptor (Siig's version). My motherboard (P5GPL) has 4 SATA slots, with 2 labeled Master and 2 Slave. I'm unsure which slot I should be plugging the drive into. I would think the slave next to the master that has my SATA drive on it? Anytime I try that my system can't find the SATA drive to boot. Any other place, the system boots, but windows XP doesn't see the drive, nor the bios.

Don't know what else to put here? Any help would be appreciated. I feel like I'm going through trial and error and someone must know enough to point me in the right direction.

thanks,
cjlavelle

Just some other thoughts to add:

I have pulled off the jumper pin from the IDE drive. The drives are both Samsung. The Sata is S1213C and the IDE is S1203N.

In bios it sees the Sata drive as the 3rd IDE master and has slots for 3rd Slave, 4th Master and 4th Slave. So that would make sense with my motherboards connections but it doesn't recognize the IDE in any of the other slots.

Ok, I've fixed my own problem before getting any answers.

First I unhooked SATA and plugged in IDE drive w/ SATA adaptor to the same slot to see if it would get picked up in BIOS with no jumpers. No luck.

Decided to make sure HD worked, so jumpered it as Master and put it on the IDE bus. Worked fine.

So when I was moving things back I put back on the adaptor and decided to plug into where the SATA drive was and LEAVE the jumper on as Master. BIOS saw it!

So in the end I now I have my SATA drive back in the 3rd Master slot and put the IDE with adaptor AND Jumpered to Master in the other Master slot and everything seems to be fine now. Windows sees the drive.

Most everything I read online said to take jumpers off of IDE drive before connecting to SATA but that wasn't the case for my setup.

Chris

Answer 1

when windows doesn't "See" the drive. Did you go to control panel, administrative tools, computer management, storage, disk management to verify it is or not seen? If it is seen but not showing up in windows explorer it is because it is unformatted. Format in the control panel outlined and it should be running just fine.

Answer 2

ya goto control panel->administrative toos->computer management->disk management. If you find yor SATA disk than format it to use.

Good luck!!!!!!!!