Author: Peter Salisbury Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Cannot boot from ide HDD when slave attached
2008/10/4 <m.nuttall@???>: > Hello,
>
> I have a gigabyte ga-ep35c-ds3r motherboard with version F2 award bios and I
> want to have 2 ide hard drives connected at the same time to the single and only
> ide connector.
>
> The problem is that the seagate master will boot only on its own.
> When a samsung (slave jumpered drive) is attached to the second ide
> connector on the single cable it gives a non system disk error!
>
> The gigabyte is a new board with the old hard drives transfered across
> physically from an old asus motherboard. This arrangement was fine on
> the old asus motherboard.
>
> I have checked the jumpers are correct with the seagate being a master
> and the samsung set as slave. The samsung is picked up correctly in the bios
> along with the seagate drive.
>
> So why is it not working?
> It was fine in the asus motherboard so why not the gigabyte?
>
> thanks for your time
>
> Martin N
Sounds like a BIOS bug. Is it important enough to risk an upgrade?
