Re: Silicon Image Ultra ATA Ide Controller Card
- From: "D.Currie" <dmbcurrie.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 23:49:31 -0600
"Patrick Page" <patspage@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have installed to the point where Device Manager sees it and says it's
>working properly. At the moment of truth, when I connect my drives to the
>card and restart, Windows sees the drives as Secondary (not Primary) and
>hangs. How do I get the drives to be seen as primary?
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Primary and secondary are determined by what IDE connector on the board the
cable is connected to. Assuming there are 2 connectors. If there is only one
connector, it may be that it's hardwired to be a secondary.
And just in case you're confusing primary/secondary with master/slave, those
setting are controlled by jumpers on the drive, and if you chose cable
select, it then is controlled by the position on the cable.
Last, there's probably no compelling reason for a drive to be on the primary
as opposed the secondary, especially considering you have Windows already
installed.
Is there some problem you're having, or is this just some sort of
housekeeping issue you're trying to straighten out?
.
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