K7S5A Pro hard time to see 200 gig drive

Anyone know the fix to this one? All was fine til I added a
secondary ide master 200 gig hd. Secondary ide sole device.

Bios takes a long time to see hd during post.

Within bios it will auto recognize drive quickly. No user defined
setting available for 200 gigs.

Can boot without bios seeing drive at times.

Nothing is overclocked.

I had the same issue with some some over 137 gig hard drives. I would
always have to go into the bios for it to detect the drive. For kicks,
set the drive for CS instead of master or slave, and see what happens. my
ultimate solution was to get a PCI ide card that liked over 137 gig
drives

Steve Friedman () wrote:
: Anyone know the fix to this one? All was fine til I added a
: secondary ide master 200 gig hd. Secondary ide sole device.

: Bios takes a long time to see hd during post.

: Within bios it will auto recognize drive quickly. No user defined
: setting available for 200 gigs.

: Can boot without bios seeing drive at times.

: Nothing is overclocked.

which controller did you get?

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:17:22 +0000 (UTC), (Brian
Campbell) wrote:

>I had the same issue with some some over 137 gig hard drives. I would
>always have to go into the bios for it to detect the drive. For kicks,
>set the drive for CS instead of master or slave, and see what happens. my
>ultimate solution was to get a PCI ide card that liked over 137 gig
>drives
>
>Steve Friedman () wrote:
>: Anyone know the fix to this one? All was fine til I added a
>: secondary ide master 200 gig hd. Secondary ide sole device.
>
>: Bios takes a long time to see hd during post.
>
>: Within bios it will auto recognize drive quickly. No user defined
>: setting available for 200 gigs.
>
>: Can boot without bios seeing drive at times.
>
>: Nothing is overclocked.
>

Steve Friedman <> wrote in message
news:...
> which controller did you get?
>
> On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:17:22 +0000 (UTC), (Brian
> Campbell) wrote:
>
> >I had the same issue with some some over 137 gig hard drives. I would
> >always have to go into the bios for it to detect the drive. For kicks,
> >set the drive for CS instead of master or slave, and see what happens.
my
> >ultimate solution was to get a PCI ide card that liked over 137 gig
> >drives
> >
> >Steve Friedman () wrote:
> >: Anyone know the fix to this one? All was fine til I added a
> >: secondary ide master 200 gig hd. Secondary ide sole device.
> >
> >: Bios takes a long time to see hd during post.
> >
> >: Within bios it will auto recognize drive quickly. No user defined
> >: setting available for 200 gigs.
> >
> >: Can boot without bios seeing drive at times.
> >
> >: Nothing is overclocked.
> >
>
Have either of you tried upgrading the bios?

just upgraded to latest ecs driver. works thus far but hangs when
posting while detecting 200 gig hd as it did with prior bios. will
see if it continues to work.

bios sees 200 gigs only but doesnt see cylinders, etc.


On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:50:31 GMT, "Zaphod Beeblebrox"
<> wrote:

>Steve Friedman <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>> which controller did you get?
>>
>> On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 21:17:22 +0000 (UTC), (Brian
>> Campbell) wrote:
>>
>> >I had the same issue with some some over 137 gig hard drives. I would
>> >always have to go into the bios for it to detect the drive. For kicks,
>> >set the drive for CS instead of master or slave, and see what happens.
>my
>> >ultimate solution was to get a PCI ide card that liked over 137 gig
>> >drives
>> >
>> >Steve Friedman () wrote:
>> >: Anyone know the fix to this one? All was fine til I added a
>> >: secondary ide master 200 gig hd. Secondary ide sole device.
>> >
>> >: Bios takes a long time to see hd during post.
>> >
>> >: Within bios it will auto recognize drive quickly. No user defined
>> >: setting available for 200 gigs.
>> >
>> >: Can boot without bios seeing drive at times.
>> >
>> >: Nothing is overclocked.
>> >
>>
>Have either of you tried upgrading the bios?
>

In article <>, Steve Friedman
<> writes

>Anyone know the fix to this one? All was fine til I added a
>secondary ide master 200 gig hd. Secondary ide sole device.
>
>Bios takes a long time to see hd during post.
>
>Within bios it will auto recognize drive quickly. No user defined
>setting available for 200 gigs.

Try just setting it to None in BIOS. When the OS loads its IDE drivers,
it'll scan the IDE buses and find the 200gb drive on the secondary IDE.
No good if you want to boot from it, obviously.

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 17:42:17 +0000, Mike Tomlinson
<> wrote:

>In article <>, Steve Friedman
><> writes
>
>>Anyone know the fix to this one? All was fine til I added a
>>secondary ide master 200 gig hd. Secondary ide sole device.
>>
>>Bios takes a long time to see hd during post.
>>
>>Within bios it will auto recognize drive quickly. No user defined
>>setting available for 200 gigs.
>
>Try just setting it to None in BIOS. When the OS loads its IDE drivers,
>it'll scan the IDE buses and find the 200gb drive on the secondary IDE.
>No good if you want to boot from it, obviously.
>


Thanx,

So eve if the bios doesn't detect it the os will/can?????

In article <>, Steve Friedman
<> writes

>
>So eve if the bios doesn't detect it the os will/can?????

Yes.