Course the Gateway site said there is in Bios a section to enter the drive
typs , cylinders etc. Don't see any of that.\\

w.


"SXMWendell" wrote in message
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The primary drive is at SATA port 0 in the bios. The cursor just jumps
over SATA port 1 to 3 and master and slave settings. Trued changing all
the settings in the drive setup Bios , no difference . All the settings in
Bios are enable or automatic detect. There was no setting that could be
changed to both.

W.


"Dave Platt" wrote in message
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I am adding another Hitachi HDT722525DLA380 that I want to Ghost to
this
drive since the origional is flaky.

I looked in BIOS and it is set to automaticly look for the drives but
doesn't show anything for this drive.

BIOS setups often have two sets of controls. One set controls how the
BIOS handles the setup for drives on the controllers it finds (e.g.
whether it asks the drive for its configuration, or uses a manually-
entered configuration). The other set controls which of the
hard-drive controller ports on the motherboard are enabled.

It is possible that the latter setting in your BIOS is set to "Primary
only" rather than "Both".

If this is the case, then the BIOS may very well be disabling the
secondary port completely when it configures the chipset. The port
wouldn't be active in the I/O register space, wouldn't connect to an
interrupt, and wouldn't show up during the enumeration (scanning) of
the PCI configuration space. The port (and any drive connected to it)
simply "wouldn't exist" to the rest of the BIOS, or to the operating
system.

Check the "Onboard peripherals" or "PCI peripherals" section of your
BIOS configuration, and make sure that the onboard IDE/SATA
configuration is set to "both".

If this is a dual-style (parallel-ATA and serial-ATA) motherboard, you
*might* have to disable the parallel-ATA port(s) in order to use both
SATA ports... or, load a specialized driver to allow you to use three
or more ports.

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