Re: Silicon Image Ultra ATA Ide Controller Card

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"Patrick Page" wrote:
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? 


   I have no idea what you mean by Windows seeing HDs
   as Primary or Secondary, but PCI IDE controller card will
   see the HDs as being on the primary channel (ch. 0)
   or secondary channel (ch 1).  But what is important is
   how the HDs appear in the HD boot order in the
   motherboard BIOS.  It will go to the HD at the head of the
   HD boot order and look for its MBR.  Then it will pass
   control to that MBR, which in turn will pass control to the
   boot sector of the "active" partition listed in the HD's
   partition table.  That partition better have the boot files -
   ntldr, boot.ini, and ntdetect.com .

   So, what you want to do is to put the HD with the boot
   files - usually the one that has the OS - at the head of the
   HD boot order.  You can just go into the BIOS and set the
   proper HD to the head of the boot order manually via
   keyboard.  Or, since most BIOSes, as a default, put the
   HD jumpered as Master on ch. 0 (i.e. the Primary channel)
   at the head of the boot order, you can just plug the IDE cable
   that connects the 2 HDs to the conroller card into the other
   IDE connector on the card.  IOW, you just plugged the cable
   into the wrong connector on the card.

*TimDaniels*
.

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