BIOS does not detect HD or CD-ROM

[Monkey177]

I have a Pioneer DVD drive and Western digital HD. I am running an Epox 8KTA3+ MB but my bios doesn't detect those two drives. Ok the Epox comes with RAID support. There are two regular IDE slots....IDE1 and IDE2. Then next to it, there are two UIDE slots which are also for the RAID. When I plug the drives into the UIDE slots, the bios sees the drives but when I use the win2k boot disks, it says I don't have a CD-ROM connected. When I just connect the two to the regular IDE slots, the bios doesn't see those drives at all. What can be the problem??

 

[Monkey177]

I have a couple more questions. Is the HD supposed to connect to the UDMA/ATA100 slots? This takes advantage of the ultra ATA right? I plugged the DVD drive back into the regular IDE slots and BIOS sees it now and it's in the primary master IDE. Are these settings ok? Or should I also plug the HD back into the regular IDE slots?

Thanks,
Simon

 

[kingink]

place your hard disk drives as master on ide and dvd rom drive as slave on primary. You could also place the dvdrom drive as slave or master on the secondary ide channel. Is the hdd ata100? if not you will only get the ata66 or ata33. Usually just connect the hdd as master on the ide channels. hope this helps.

as far as raid you need two hdd minimum. read more on it. use google.
kingink

 

[Monkey177]

Ok i don't know how it worked but finally BIOS detects both drives. In BIOS start up...that screen when you boot up the computer, it shows both running at ATA33. Are all drives like that? Is that fast or slow? Well after I get windows actually installed onto the HD i'll probably try to find out if my HD is ultra ata and plug it into those slots again...

 

[thatmaguy]

ATA 33 (33 mb/s) is an older standard.

Current standard is ATA66

ATA 100 is the newest comer (available on boards like Asus A7V)

I would check your HD specs to see what the default transfer rate is

 

[fixedbyjohn]

You have EPoX latest skt A board, are you using 80 wire,40 pin Hdrive cables? the ones that come with the mobo? what hd drv are you using? john