I just built a new computer using an Intel single core P4 631 on an ECS 945P-A board and 2GB of Kinston HyperX RAM. There are 2 Samsung opticle drives in the machine and a single 250GB Seagate Barracuda hard drive- all of which are SATA drives.
First time power-up of machine was spent setting up bios. Rebooted and Auto Detect sees both optical drives and the hard drive. Both optical drives are shown as “ATAPI CDROM” but the SATA hard drive is seen as “IDE Hard Disk” and “ATAPI Incompatible”.
I recall reading that in Windows there was a problem with SATA drives, but at that point in the process, there was no OS involved
Rebooted again with a Feisty Fawn Ubuntu live disk in an optical drive and the disk loaded, then opened normally. However, 2 attempts to install Feisty Fawn were failures. I can run on the live disk, but it refuses to install.
The Bios has 3 possible drive settings (called “IDE Configurations” in the manual:
1) Disabled-
2) Compatable (default)-
3) Enhanced-
The manual further states, “If set ATA/IDE Configurationto Eenhanced mode, then SATAdevices can be plugged into any SATA connector”.
There are 4 SATA connectors on the Mother Board. In the bios, I selected the Enhanced mode.
Can anyone offer any reason why this hard drive is seen as an IDE device that is incompatable and/or recommend a fix to the problem?
