Owen Townend wrote:
> On 24/06/2008, Karl Larsen <k5di@(protected):
>  
>> Rashkae wrote:
>> > Karl Larsen wrote:
>> >
>> >>   I know a lot of people are using SATA drives now. How did you get
>> >> them to work in a reliable way?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > I plug them in and turn the computer on
>> >
>> >
>>
>>   Well I have been experimenting and have found my problem. The BIOS
>> on my computer is very poor with SATA hard drives. I am now in the port
>> on the motherboard that when I look at BIOS it says I have zero hard
>> drives but it boots up to this system just fine. When I use the other
>> port BIOS shows the hard drive present and working.
>>
>>   The end of the data cable on the hard drive is solid and a good
>> connection but the one on the motherboard had some lint in the plug. I
>> blew off the lint and blew out the plugs on the motherboard and they are
>> now clean.
>>
>>   I wiggled the cable at both ends and it will not stop. It must be
>> good now.
>>
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>  
>
> Hey,
>  I'm glad you found the culprit (dust).
>  IIRC you bought a Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H about the same time I did.
> By default the first 3 SATA ports are set to AHCI SATA, the next two
> are set to PATA legacy mode.
>  To check that the disk is being detected look in the bios where you
> set the boot disk order. All hard disks should be in that list.
>
> cheers,
> Owen.
>  


  My computer and BIOS must be older than yours. It is a
GeForce6100-M9 mainboard and the bios does not have any SATA ports
defined as such. I will look at the boot disk order (when I find it). It
may well be bad. I have had problems with boot disk order changing :-)

  By the way I got this nVidia running pretty good so that mainboard
is in the store room. I need to build another computer someday.



Karl

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