3 optical drives, 3 hard drives

[COKE CAN]

I have 2 80GB hard drives, both SATA for WinXP. I have a CD-RW set as master on the Primary IDE, and a DVD-RW set as slave on the Primary IDE. I then have a DVD drive set as slave on the secondary IDE and an 80GB ATA100 Western Digital Drive set as slave on the Secondary IDE.

I can't seem to find this HDD, I can see the DVD. I wanted to install Linux to this drive. But I can't even get any of them to be seen upon boot. What am I doing wrong?

Steve

[COKE CAN]

Should I flip flop the IDE cables?

[bigtomrodney]

Are you using Cable Select or have you changed your jumpers to mirror the configuration? After that have you modified your settings in the BIOS?

[COKE CAN]

Are you using Cable Select or have you changed your jumpers to mirror the configuration? After that have you modified your settings in the BIOS?

I'm not using cable select, just slave. How do I configure the BIOS? It's an ASUS P4C800 MB.

[bigtomrodney]

Wait you said you set both the DVD and the Hard Drive as slave on the secondary IDE - you can't do that, each IDE channel has one slave and one master. Check that setting and put the master on the end of the cable, and the slave on the connection in the middle of the ribbon.

[COKE CAN]

Wait you said you set both the DVD and the Hard Drive as slave on the secondary IDE - you can't do that, each IDE channel has one slave and one master. Check that setting and put the master on the end of the cable, and the slave on the connection in the middle of the ribbon.

Done, same problem. Some one told me you can't mix IDE and SATA

[budman7]

I don't see why you couldn't mix IDE and SATA hard drives.
People use IDE cdroms and SATA hard drives all the time.
A hard drive is just a different medium than a cdrom.

Did this person give you any evidence as to why you couldn't mix them?

[bigtomrodney]

Wait you said you set both the DVD and the Hard Drive as slave on the secondary IDE - you can't do that, each IDE channel has one slave and one master. Check that setting and put the master on the end of the cable, and the slave on the connection in the middle of the ribbon.

Done, same problem. Some one told me you can't mix IDE and SATA

In that case did you go into your BIOS and set the relevent IDE channel to Autodetect for next boot?

[COKE CAN]

I don't see why you couldn't mix IDE and SATA hard drives.
People use IDE cdroms and SATA hard drives all the time.
A hard drive is just a different medium than a cdrom.

Did this person give you any evidence as to why you couldn't mix them?

Only that he has the same motherboard as me and he hit the same problem trying to connect the SATA after running IDE for quite some time.