Hi, I'm having a little bit of trouble with my second hard drive. My computer is an Athlon 2.0ghz with a SATA2 primary hard drive, and IDE secondary hard drive.
After a fresh reinstallation of XP, my computer was not able to read my secondary IDE hard drive. no pins where changed whatsoever.
It originally had not shown up in disk management even after a rescan of the drives. I've also checked all the wires.
The only way I was able to get it to work was to repin both the dvdrom and the secondary hard drive as slaves on the IDE cable since any other way it would choose the secondary IDE HDD as master over the primary SATA2 - Or the IDE HDD would not register at all.
Now with both dvdrom and secondary IDE HDD pinned as slaves, I get an 'ATAPI incompatable' message every time I start the computer. I doubt it is reffering to the dvdrom since I still get the message even when the dvdrom is disconnected.
Please help, it gets annouying having to press F1 everytime I want to boot up my computer.
Thanks.
After a fresh reinstallation of XP, my computer was not able to read my secondary IDE hard drive. no pins where changed whatsoever.
It originally had not shown up in disk management even after a rescan of the drives. I've also checked all the wires.
The only way I was able to get it to work was to repin both the dvdrom and the secondary hard drive as slaves on the IDE cable since any other way it would choose the secondary IDE HDD as master over the primary SATA2 - Or the IDE HDD would not register at all.
Now with both dvdrom and secondary IDE HDD pinned as slaves, I get an 'ATAPI incompatable' message every time I start the computer. I doubt it is reffering to the dvdrom since I still get the message even when the dvdrom is disconnected.
Please help, it gets annouying having to press F1 everytime I want to boot up my computer.
Thanks.