ASUS motherboard and SATA + IDE drives?
 

I have just installed an ASUS NM2-E motherboard with Win2k and a Western
Digital 250GB SATA-2 250GB disk and everything works fine, except when I try
to use some IDE (FAT32) formatted disks from my old computer. (Win2k only
recognizes 130GB out of the 250GB, I installed Win2k on a 20GB NTFS
partition.)

As long as I have no IDE drive connected, it all works fine, rebooting
without any problems. But as soon as I connect an IDE disk, the system takes
very long to boot up, obviously because there is something about the IDE
disk it doesn't like.

I tried formatting it with Win2k but it didn't work well and it ended with
having to restart the system - and to reinstall the OS as well. This time,
the OS reports that the unused (100GB) part of the HD needs to be formatted
(FAT32) before proceeding.

I have searched the manual and the BIOS but have not been able to find any
clues for solving the IDE problem. What can it be?

I have a number of removable IDE drives that I am using for backup.

Rolf

Re: ASUS motherboard and SATA + IDE drives?
 

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Rolf wrote:
> I have just installed an ASUS NM2-E motherboard with Win2k and a
> Western Digital 250GB SATA-2 250GB disk and everything works fine,
> except when I try to use some IDE (FAT32) formatted disks from my old
> computer. (Win2k only recognizes 130GB out of the 250GB, I installed
> Win2k on a 20GB NTFS partition.)
>
> As long as I have no IDE drive connected, it all works fine, rebooting
> without any problems. But as soon as I connect an IDE disk, the
> system takes very long to boot up, obviously because there is
> something about the IDE disk it doesn't like.
>
> I tried formatting it with Win2k but it didn't work well and it ended
> with having to restart the system - and to reinstall the OS as well.
> This time, the OS reports that the unused (100GB) part of the HD
> needs to be formatted (FAT32) before proceeding.
>
> I have searched the manual and the BIOS but have not been able to
> find any clues for solving the IDE problem. What can it be?
>
> I have a number of removable IDE drives that I am using for backup.
>
> Rolf

Re: ASUS motherboard and SATA + IDE drives?
 

As the sun rose on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:02:23 +0200, the distinguished
and oh so talented "Rolf" <spam.aalberg@tele2.no> climbed up to the
podium, shuffled some papers, took a sip of ice water and shouted in a
loud voice:

>I have just installed an ASUS NM2-E motherboard with Win2k and a Western
>Digital 250GB SATA-2 250GB disk and everything works fine, except when I try
>to use some IDE (FAT32) formatted disks from my old computer. (Win2k only
>recognizes 130GB out of the 250GB, I installed Win2k on a 20GB NTFS
>partition.)
>
>As long as I have no IDE drive connected, it all works fine, rebooting
>without any problems. But as soon as I connect an IDE disk, the system takes
>very long to boot up, obviously because there is something about the IDE
>disk it doesn't like.
>
>I tried formatting it with Win2k but it didn't work well and it ended with
>having to restart the system - and to reinstall the OS as well. This time,
>the OS reports that the unused (100GB) part of the HD needs to be formatted
>(FAT32) before proceeding.
>
>I have searched the manual and the BIOS but have not been able to find any
>clues for solving the IDE problem. What can it be?
>
>I have a number of removable IDE drives that I am using for backup.
>
>Rolf
>
>
I had this problem with my similar system too.
The only answer I could come up with was to get rid of the non-sata
hds.