IC7 Max3 and SATA drives

[Bob (88)]

Trying to get the Abit IC7 Max3 MB working with both IDE and SATA hds. The configuration is:
IDE-1 Master Maxtor 120 GB
Slave Maxtor 80 GB
IDE-2 Master WDC 8 GB
Slave Sony DVD-ROM

SATA1 WDC Raptor 37 GB

The bios only recognizes the IDE drives;have set the OnChip Serial ATA Mode to "IDE" and OnChip Serial ATA to "Enhanced Mode"; Curiously the SATA drive did appear (once) but disappeared and never reappeared. Any suggestions?? Thanks

 

[TomG]

are you sure that the drive is not visible in the OS? using XP's drive manager utility for example? just because it does not appear on the POST screen does not mean that the OS won't see it in this case.

also, be sure to have flashed to the newest 1.7 bios as there are a lot of fixes in the bios for SATA drive detection, particularly with Maxtor drives.

 

[TomG]

SORRY!!! The 1.7 bios I mention is not the newest bios -- not even an appropriate bios -- for your board! I gotta get used to the MAX3 version of the IC7 out there! I didn't catch that until right after I hit send...

 

[Richard Hopkins]

"Bob" wrote:

Trying to get the Abit IC7 Max3 MB working with both IDE and SATA hds.
The configuration is:
IDE-1 Master Maxtor 120 GB
Slave Maxtor 80 GB
IDE-2 Master WDC 8 GB
Slave Sony DVD-ROM

SATA1 WDC Raptor 37 GB

The bios only recognizes the IDE drives;have set the OnChip Serial ATA Mode to "IDE" and OnChip Serial ATA to "Enhanced Mode"; ...

Set the SATA mode to RAID. If you intend to boot from the Raptor, enable the RAID BIOS and make sure the boot priority options in the Advanced BIOS setup sheet are set appropriately.

 

[Old Egypt]

Make sure you set IDE Bus Master to <Enabled> in the On Chip Serial ATA menu.

After doing this, I was able to boot from the WDC Raptor that was connected to SATA1.

I personally believe Abit still needs to get the bugs out of this board's BIOS.

 

[Tom Erickson]

I am having a similar problem, and have downloaded the latest version (13) of the BIOS.

Running IC7-Max3 with IDE Bios set to Auto or Enhanced (tried both)

Configuration:

IDE-1 Master Pioneer DVD
IDE-2 Master IBM 16GB
IDE-3 Master WDC Raptor 36GB (Boot drive, on Sata-1 configured as IDE 3)

Sata 3-4 Seagate 120GB configured as Raid 0 using SI Raid.

The boot priority is set to the WDC drive.

The system hangs as it starts up Windows XP Home with SP 1.

If I take the IBM drive out and leave BIOS on Auto, it switches WDC drive to IDE 2 Master and everything is OK. I can add the IBM drive back on IDE 1 as the slave, and it boots OK as well. I want to run the IBM on its own IDE drive as I plan to add a 52X CD reader to IDE 1.

Any ideas?

Tom Erickson