slave HD

[fenix]

I am trying to slave an ata Maxtor40 gb hd into
a new HP Vista computer with a SATA hd, but it always trys to boot to the ATA Maxtox, no matter which jumper setting I try. Does anyone have any ideas other than it being a faulty hard drive ? There's no settings in the Bios setup other than the hdd group boot priority. It just doesn't want to be a slave. thx

 

[fenix]

addendum: Maxtor hd has XP on it

 

[vacunita]

There should be an option in BIOS to select Boot Order. Make sure its set to BOOT from the SATA drive first.

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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[validauser]

maybe your Mainboard (or BIOS) isn't able to boot from SATA (at the moment there are only an few boards which supports this) or if you own an separate PCI/PCI-Express Card, often this expansion cards won't work

Have you looked for a bios Update on the Mainboard - Manufactures Homepage, eventually this will solve the problem

SATA don't need any Master/Slave Configuration..

I have excatly the same problem with a ASUS M2N4-SLI Board
(has 4 onboard SATA Ports) but SATA Boot won't work at the moment. Asus annouced that there will be a solution soon.

 

[G0AOZ]

Validauser, if you'll pardon the pun, I don't think your argument is valid! As I read fenix's post, his HP Vista machine comes as standard with a SATA drive, and he is trying to ADD a PATA (IDE) drive to it, not the other way round. Could be wrong though...

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[profiman]

oh yeah, but it's quiet clear why the system boots from the ATA (and i think this isn't the suituation which fenix wants)

@fenix: am i correct with this?

you want to boot from the SATA Drive right?

So as i said, this feature (as far as i know) is only available by some few boards.

The Main Problem in this case is the following:

If you put in a ATA Drive into a System which owns a SATA Drive (already configured and installed)then the IDE Controller (normally the Hostbridge) gives priority on the IDE Bus and therefore, if the system and bootsectors on the target is valid, then Windows boots up

 

[Johnthephoneguy]

My ASUS P5B MB has Sata drives that boot, it is just as Vacunita said, check the bios for boot order. I have 2 SATA drives with XP on them, I recently added an IDE HD that was the boot drive on a different machine but it had alot of files I wanted to transfer. It still boots via the SATA because that is how it is set up in bios.

JohnThePhoneGuy

"If I can't fix it, it's not broke!

 

[kmcferrin]

Agreed. I've used several modern Gigabyte boards that have both SATA and PATA ports on them, and on every single board it allowed you to select a boot order, including allowing you to set SATA higher than PATA in the boot priority. I don't buy that "there are very few mainboards with this functionality" at all. The overwhelming majority of systems being sold today are sold with SATA drives, and mainboards have allowed you to set the boot order preference ever since I've been building machines (approximately 20 years).

 

[profiman]

Lucky you are..it's one of the boards, which supports SATA Boot. However by fenix this seems the problem why it dosen't work, will say, his board isn't SATA Bootable and then then PC took the next available Bootdisk (in this case the old ATA one)

 

[kmcferrin]

However by fenix this seems the problem why it dosen't work, will say, his board isn't SATA Bootable and then then PC took the next available Bootdisk (in this case the old ATA one)

Except that the PC was shipped with only a SATA disk to begin with, and it already had an OS on it and was fully functional. His issue is when he tries to add a PATA hard disk to the system that already is booting from SATA. It probably sees another boot device added and changes the boot device sequence, but all he should have to do is go back into the BIOS setup and change the preference to the one that he wants.

It's obvious that his board does boot from SATA, since that's the way that it worked before he added the PATA drive.

 

[vacunita]

It is clear why its booting from the ATA drive. Most boards including ones with SATA drives, give booting priority to IDE's by default. It is easily fixable in the BIOS if you set the BOOT order to boot from SATA first.

It was already booting from SATA because it could not find anything to boot from on the ATA connector so it moves on.

Just like setting the boot order to boot from the CD-Rom first will boot from the Hard drive if nothing is found on the CD to boot from. Same thing with SATA supporting boards. They'll boot from the SATA unless they find something in the IDE channel. It is fixed by changing the boot order to the SATA drive first instead of the IDE/ATA.



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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[fenix]

Sorry for the delay in replying, I was away from my computer for about 3 days.


I do not see any setting in the bios setup to give a choice of boot priority between SATA and PATA drives. The only boot option is between hard drives as a GROUP, CD_ROM, or floppy. The vista machine is a new HP and
on my Dell 8300 which is about 3 years old now, there isn't that choice either. It just lists the SATA hard drive, Auto/or off, and then Primary Master, Primary slave, and secondary Master and secondary slave for the optical drives. As I mentioned, it just booted to it unless I disconnected the SATA cable from the SATA drive. It seems that there are different types of boards and bios's out there and I don't think there is an absolute rule on this.