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More info?)
Had another look, the yellow IDE connector and SATA use the same controller,
try your IDE drives on the Blue connector. I seem to remember that you cant
use the SATA and Promise controller at the same time.
Al Reeve
"gce" <gceng2@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:daena4$3ki$1@news2.zwoll1.ov.home.nl...
> To be precise:
>
> IDE1-M : startup XP OS
> IDE1-S : second harddisk
>
> But the promise bios at startup gives now:
>
> D0: new sata disk
> D1: first ide disk
> D2: second ide disk
>
> The boot order I try to set is that first boot device is C:
>
> But it still gives a boot failure and doesn't try the IDE1-M
>
> "Al Reeve" <al.r@btinternet.com> schreef in bericht
> news:daelhj$cfj$1@nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
>> Check that the boot order in BIOS is set correctly to boot in the order
>> you want. It is possible that defaults are trying to get it to boot from
>> SATA first. This isn't a problem without one, it just moves on to the
>> next boot device. You can download a manual by following links from
>> www.aopen.com.
>>
>> Al Reeve
>>
>> "gce" <gceng2@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:daeg3g$clk$1@news3.zwoll1.ov.home.nl...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a system with a Aopen AX4PE Max mainboard. The system was build
>>> on 2
>>> IDE harddisk connected to the yellow cable.
>>>
>>> Now I like to add a third disk, a SATA as an extra data disk.
>>> I want to have it boot from the IDE Primary master, the old one. But I
>>> get boot-erros while it is trying to boot from the SATA disk.
>>>
>>> Please help,
>>> Gert
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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