Re: IDE, controller, ????

flipflops wrote:

BTW please don't top post.

I think I found the problem......and explains why it shows up as IDE5.

I built this system a while ago, and don't know why I did this but I
did. I
opened the case and noticed the following:

On the primary IDE I have the Sony DVDrw as the master, and the
Plextor CDRW as the slave....wait it gets better......
Nothing on the 2nd IDE.
Then I noticed I put a SCSI card (PCI slot ..giving me 2 more IDE
slots) to which I have the WinXp hard drive as master and the Maxtor
hardrive as slave. Nothing on the 2nd IDE.

I don't understand. If the PCI card is SCSI then the HDs attached to it
must also be SCSI. SCSI drives will not work on IDE. Do you mean the
PCI card is IDE or are the drives are SCSI.

I guess this explains the long time for the partitioner, huh?
My next question, although not sure if this is the right group is
this:

If I move the cable (with the DVDrw and the CDrw) from primary IDE to
the 2nd IDE (on mb) and then move the cable (with the hard drives)
from the pci card to the primary IDE (on the mb) will it boot
normally? Do I risk messing up my WinXp hard drive?

As grant said your best bet is to have your HDs as master each on their
own IDE channel and then double-check that DMA is turned on.

[snip]
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