[SERIOUS] 2 IDE Controllers and SATA

[Arrow_Raider]

I have a intel(the devil) motherboard that has a single IDE thing and 4 sata things. I need 3 IDE drives hooked up to it(a harddrive, and 2 cd drives). I have 2 sata hard drives hooked up to it and raid 0'd. Because it only has one IDE thing on it, i went out and bought a IDE host pci card or whatever the hell. Whenever I hook up a device to my new card on primary or secondary controller, it seems to get stuck on the sata raid manager. It displays the header information about the raid manager's name and copyright and sits there and does nothing at all. HELP


EDIT: If i unplug my sata drives, it doesn't get stuck on that screen. Are my sata drives pretending to be a secondary IDE thing? (Intel sucks)

[manavo11]

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[si_the_geek]

It sounds to me (as you suspect) that your SATA is acting as the secondary IDE.

You may be able to change settings for the SATA in your BIOS, which say to act as secondary, or perhaps there is an IRQ(or similar) setting that the two devices share? If this is the case, they may be confusing each other, and so it would be best to change one of them if you can (I would assume that your add-in card has jumpers to set IRQ).

[Dnereb]

did you upgrade the firmware from your motherboard and look foor new firmware/drivers for the S-ATA component of your m-board and PCI I/O controller(the IDE thingie card)?

[Arrow_Raider]

I have looked around in my bios. There is no documentation on.... anything that has the label "Intel" on it. There is no documentation on my bios.. not even a side help bar.(intel sucks) Anyways, there is absolutely no configuration for IRQ's in my BIOS. If i start up windows by having nothing connected to my pci controller, i am able to see the IRQ's in device manager. RAID controller has 19, PCI card has 18.

I just attached my IDE harddrive to my pci card. This caused the IDE harddrive to boot which has vista on it. However, durring the bootup, it blue screened... I was hoping to be able to look at the raid config inside windows to see if i could reconfig it or something while having a drive active on the pci card. However, that isn't going to be possible it seems.

FYI: My bios is the newest version. Durring the initial install of windows xp, i couldn't even install windows on my raid drive until I got a new bios version. The bios that shipped out of the box caused the system to blue screen durring windows install on the raid drive.(intel sucks)