Primary controller not working

[Guest_imported]

Hello all!
I have an old Asus T2P4 board which can not detect IDE drives connected to the primary interface. If I connect the harddrive to the *secondary* IDE connector, it's detected by the BIOS without problems.
Are there any know problem with that motherboard and the primary IDE interface?

 

[Zorlod]

I'm not aware of any known problems. A long shot...if you put the HDD info in the bios manually, the computer may work.

 

[Guest_imported]

Sorry, no, tried that.
On my normal workstation, I use SCSI. It's easy to know if eveything is working alright, because I can disable "auto spin-up" on the harddrives, and the harddisks won't spin up until the controller tells them to. That wasy, I know if the controller can send very basic messages to the drive.
How does IDE work?
The harddisk in question does seem to "spin up". Do IDE drives "spin up" as soon as they get some juice, or do they require a command from the controller?

 

[edfair]

Most spin as soon as they have 5 and 12 volts. No signal cable required. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com

Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply.

Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.

 

[dvannoy]

The other thing you can do is, get a cheap controller card and see if it boots off that.. DVannoy
MIS
A+,Network+,CNA

 

[tlcscousin]

Change the secondary cable with the primary or if you have another cable swap the new one for the primary cable maybe the cable is on the way out.