SATA-0 / SATA-2 Disk problem

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Gswiss, Jun 8, 2006.

  1. Gswiss

    Gswiss Private E-2

    When I connect a 2nd SATA disk to a DELL Dimension, it's recognised by the BIOS but not by XP Home-SP2 (nor Partition Magic, nor AIDA).

    What I find odd is that I can see only 2 SATA plugs on the motherboard. However, the BIOS sees the original boot disk under Drive 0 and Port SATA-0. The new one is recognised as Drive 1 and Port SATA-2. What happened to SATA-1?

    I wouldn't mind except that this might be a reason why the new disk is not seen by Windows.

    FYI, there are no IDE plugs on the MB except for the 2 optical disks.
     
  2. Hipster Doofus

    Hipster Doofus MajorGeek

    Don't know about SATA but what happens if you boot from the XP cd? Does it see the drive? Maybe it needs formatting before getting into windows????
     
  3. Gswiss

    Gswiss Private E-2

    the disk is formatted and it contains data
     

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