Problems connecting 2nd IDE drive 1

[18821]

I have a sytem with an IDE drive, from which i boot, and an extra sata drive. I came by another IDE drive that I would like to connect, but when i do so the system can't find either of the IDE drives and won't boot. However, if I only connect (any) one of them it is found and i can boot from it. I have autodetect primary and secondary IDE drive enabled in the BIOS. Both drives are on 80 GB. I'd be forever grateful if anyone could give me some pointers.

My system:
Abit NF-7 mobo
AMD 2800+
1 GB ram
win xp, sp2

 

[18821]

I'm sorry, just after posting this thread someone told me that i had to set one drive to slave on the actual disk. So I did, and now the POST finds both drives and i can boot from my primary drive. But i still get "primary slave disk failure" and i can't access the drive in the bios or in windows. It's weird, because I know the disk works, since i could boot it as my primary drive.

 

[micker377]

How can you "boot from my primary drive. But i still get "primary slave disk failure" ? If it fails, it won't boot. Do you have the primary boot drive as master (end connector on IDE cable), and the other drive as slave (middle connector on IDE cable)?

 

[18821]

But it's the slave disk that fails. It boots from the master disk. The IDE cable is connected as you described.

 

[wolluf]

Are you sure the jumpers are correct on BOTH drives (eg, the master drive may have 2 different jumper settings - one as master without slave & one as master with slave. And the slave should be jumpered as slave of course). Or you could set both to cable select.

If you have only one CD/DVD device on secondary IDE controller, you could try letting second drive share withthat instead.

 

[18821]

Ah, that was it. My master was set to single drive. Thanks a bunch.