I'm having issues trying to use a PCI IDE adapter in conjunction with my onboard SATA controller.
I have four hard drives: two 160gb Seagate SATA drives and two 80gb Maxtor IDE drives. Because of space restrictions, I can only use the two IDE drives if they're attached to the IDE adapter.
What I wanted to do was have two RAID-0 arrays, with the OS on the SATA array and the IDE array as data backup. However, if an IDE drive is attached to the IDE adapter, the computer will not boot from any operating system. Not into XP, not into the XP bootable cd. It reacts as though there are no bootable devices attached. It works fine with my existing XP install on the SATA array, and the computer will boot with the IDE drives unplugged from the IDE card, but as soon as one is attached, nada. It just gets stuck at "Verifying DMI Pool data...", tries to boot from CD (even if the XP setup cd is in the drive it fails), and then boots from the nvidia boot agent.
It seems like a conflict, where with an IDE adapter my BIOS will not boot from any other devices. I've tried two separate IDE adapters, one with a SiL controller and RAID, and the other with a non-RAID Promise controller. I've contacted Asus but they want me to pay long distance for support, so I came here first. Any ideas or similar problems/resolutions?
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I have four hard drives: two 160gb Seagate SATA drives and two 80gb Maxtor IDE drives. Because of space restrictions, I can only use the two IDE drives if they're attached to the IDE adapter.
What I wanted to do was have two RAID-0 arrays, with the OS on the SATA array and the IDE array as data backup. However, if an IDE drive is attached to the IDE adapter, the computer will not boot from any operating system. Not into XP, not into the XP bootable cd. It reacts as though there are no bootable devices attached. It works fine with my existing XP install on the SATA array, and the computer will boot with the IDE drives unplugged from the IDE card, but as soon as one is attached, nada. It just gets stuck at "Verifying DMI Pool data...", tries to boot from CD (even if the XP setup cd is in the drive it fails), and then boots from the nvidia boot agent.
It seems like a conflict, where with an IDE adapter my BIOS will not boot from any other devices. I've tried two separate IDE adapters, one with a SiL controller and RAID, and the other with a non-RAID Promise controller. I've contacted Asus but they want me to pay long distance for support, so I came here first. Any ideas or similar problems/resolutions?
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