my motherboard is ASUS P5PL2, and has just one slot for IDE decives, while i have three IDE devices!(a hard disk and two optical devices). so i bought that conventor to connect my IDE hard through the SATA slot, but it is not recognized by the motherboard bios at all!
2006-12-12 09:38:47 · 4 answers · asked by Mirage 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
ok. first of all you bought the wrong motherboard. but to fix this the easiest way to fix would be to buy a pci card that has IDE controller on it. you should be able to pick one up at a local electronics store or online. actually online would be better. all you need is a pci card with an ide controller on it.
2006-12-12 10:05:39 · answer #1 · answered by rationalm1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The IDE slot has two channels, so you can hook one HD to the IDE slot, and one optical drive to the IDE slot, set the HD to the IDE cable as the main device, and the optical drive as the secondary drive. Then connect the second optical drive to the SATA card. If that doesn't work. Put all of the drives on the SATA.
2006-12-12 10:14:20 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is really one gadget per cable on SATA, so that you do not want jumpers (conversely, having 2 units on one cable like in IDE, you ought to specify which pins of the cable to apply for each gadget, subsequently the jumper). For the booting concern, in BIOS there must be an selection for boot precedence. only placed the demanding rigidity you want on the right of the list.
2016-10-18 04:37:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you expecting a IDE to SATA converter to allow you to attach more devices to your controller than normal? Isn't going to happen.
2006-12-12 09:43:18 · answer #4 · answered by themountainviewguy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋