Slave and DVDRW not detected in BIOS or Windows

ice_glitch · 10-03-2007, 10:40 AM

This all started when I was playing Enemy Territory Quake Wars Demo... lol... and was having troubles... long story short... I found out my slave drive D:/ (120GB Seagate ATA not connected by ribbon cable but through SATA cable and connects through a labeled SATA-2 Port on Motherboard) was only reading at 1886KB/s as opposed to what should be about 50mb/s. SO, connected yet another slave drive E:/ (which used the IDE cable) and copied all my files from the D:/ to the E:/ to see if I could just swap the drives and use the E:/ from now on if it was faster because it used an IDE cable. Did a quick hd speed test and now the slave drive D:/ was running at 50mb/s! And it was using exact same cables, only difference was that another slave drive E:/ was connected to the middle pin on IDE cable. To make things more confusing... the slave drive E:/ I just connected to the IDE cable on the middle pin is running at 1886KB/s just like D:/ was. So, disconnected E:/ again and hooked the IDE cable back into DVD where it previously was. Now my setup is as follows and none other hard drives will detect except C:/... IDE cable comes out of motherboard... connects to DVD drive in the middle, then comes down to drive C:/ and connects. DVD is set as slave. The jumper on C:/ is set on the first set of pins (Master). My D:/ drive is connected by a multi-colored set of chords (power chord I'm assuming)... and a blue chord which connects into a port on the motherboard labeled SATA-2. The D:/ drive jumper is gone and set as a slave. BIOS doesn't detect any other drive on the system except C:/ yet the DVD drive opens when you push the button and D:/ drive spins up when computer turns on. Also I don't know how to config my BIOS to auto-detect Hard Drives... my system specs are in my signature...

ice_glitch · 10-03-2007, 10:34 PM

Okay okay, new update on this post... I now have the drives all working after some re-connecting of the wires even though I didn't change anything on where they connected or anything... just unplugged and re-plugged in about three times and after so many times for some stupid reason now it's working... (geeze...computers sometimes...

)... Well, anyway, now all drives working however... I have two Primary IDE Channels and the second one is currently running in PIO Mode (Set to UDMA If Available but PIO mode nevertheless) and I need to get it back to UDMA... I tried uninstalling the primary IDE channel and restarting windows and re-installing... did no good still currently PIO... any tips?

10-03-2007, 10:40 AM	#1 (permalink)
ice_glitch Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 59 OS: XP SP2	Slave and DVDRW not detected in BIOS or Windows This all started when I was playing Enemy Territory Quake Wars Demo... lol... and was having troubles... long story short... I found out my slave drive D:/ (120GB Seagate ATA not connected by ribbon cable but through SATA cable and connects through a labeled SATA-2 Port on Motherboard) was only reading at 1886KB/s as opposed to what should be about 50mb/s. SO, connected yet another slave drive E:/ (which used the IDE cable) and copied all my files from the D:/ to the E:/ to see if I could just swap the drives and use the E:/ from now on if it was faster because it used an IDE cable. Did a quick hd speed test and now the slave drive D:/ was running at 50mb/s! And it was using exact same cables, only difference was that another slave drive E:/ was connected to the middle pin on IDE cable. To make things more confusing... the slave drive E:/ I just connected to the IDE cable on the middle pin is running at 1886KB/s just like D:/ was. So, disconnected E:/ again and hooked the IDE cable back into DVD where it previously was. Now my setup is as follows and none other hard drives will detect except C:/... IDE cable comes out of motherboard... connects to DVD drive in the middle, then comes down to drive C:/ and connects. DVD is set as slave. The jumper on C:/ is set on the first set of pins (Master). My D:/ drive is connected by a multi-colored set of chords (power chord I'm assuming)... and a blue chord which connects into a port on the motherboard labeled SATA-2. The D:/ drive jumper is gone and set as a slave. BIOS doesn't detect any other drive on the system except C:/ yet the DVD drive opens when you push the button and D:/ drive spins up when computer turns on. Also I don't know how to config my BIOS to auto-detect Hard Drives... my system specs are in my signature... __________________ Dell Dimension 4700, BIOS A10, Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2, Pentium IV Processor 3.0 Ghz, 2.5 GB RAM, 30GB Seagate Master, 100GB Seagate Slave, Pioneer DVD R/RW Drive,256 MB PNY GeForce 8600 GT, No Floppy Drive, 500watt modular PSU

10-03-2007, 10:34 PM	#2 (permalink)
ice_glitch Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 59 OS: XP SP2	Re: Slave and DVDRW not detected in BIOS or Windows Okay okay, new update on this post... I now have the drives all working after some re-connecting of the wires even though I didn't change anything on where they connected or anything... just unplugged and re-plugged in about three times and after so many times for some stupid reason now it's working... (geeze...computers sometimes...)... Well, anyway, now all drives working however... I have two Primary IDE Channels and the second one is currently running in PIO Mode (Set to UDMA If Available but PIO mode nevertheless) and I need to get it back to UDMA... I tried uninstalling the primary IDE channel and restarting windows and re-installing... did no good still currently PIO... any tips? __________________ Dell Dimension 4700, BIOS A10, Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2, Pentium IV Processor 3.0 Ghz, 2.5 GB RAM, 30GB Seagate Master, 100GB Seagate Slave, Pioneer DVD R/RW Drive,256 MB PNY GeForce 8600 GT, No Floppy Drive, 500watt modular PSU