Hard Drive Issues

[wingnut144]

Ok, here's what happened. I had 2 drives in my athlon 700, asus KA7 botherboard system. 1st drive was a 6gig, 2nd drive 18 gig. I moved the 18 gig drive to my primary drive and added a 2nd 20 gig drive as the slave. Now when I boot up, every once in a while, the BIOS won't detect the 2nd drive, but if I reboot, its there. It never did that when the 18 gig was the 2nd drive, always detected it fine. I had updated Via's drivers with their 4-in-1 already, didn't help.

Anyone have any thoughts on what may be happening, and how to fix it?

Thanks.

 

[Lucol]

Some drives need a little more time than others to spin up, so that is almost certainly your problem. You should detect your drives in BIOS, and not have BIOS autodetect them everytime you power up.

 

[wingnut144]

I can do that, but it seems strange that just after a reboot, the drive is recognized in the BIOS.

 

[Lucol]

That's because it's a soft reboot, you're not powering down, so the drives are already spun up, and thus, the BIOS can detect them after the reboot.

 

[Lars_Coleman]

I would replace the drive, it shouldn't do that no matter what .....