I recently purchased a SOYO 6BA+100 motherboard. When I installed my components in the following manner, and went to explorer, the only drive listed was a C: drive. I had the following components hooked to the following IDE slots
IDE 1 (which supports ATA33)
10.2 GIG hard drive set to master
Iomega Zip drive set to slave
IDE 2 (which supports ATA33)
Memorex DVD set to master
Iomega CDRW set to slave
IDE 3 (which supports ATA66)
Seagate ST320420A ATA 66 20.2 GIG hard drive set to master (formated only)
Maxtor ATA 33 12.4 GIG hard drive set to slave (OS, Windows ME installed)
(I used the 80 pin ribbon cable)
When I booted I set up bios to recognize the hard drive on IDE 1 and saved it. The bios recognized it during boot and recognized the CD’s and zip drive. When the HPT 370 searched for devices it found the two hard drives and booted to Windows ME. When I went to explorer, the only thing listed was my 3.5 floppy (A) and the 12.4 gig slaved (C).
Further investigation revealed that the Primary IDE controller had a explaination point my it in device manager.
I took the 20.2 gig hard drive out of the system and made the 12.4 gig a master on IDE 3 and still had the same outcome.
I then moved the 12.4 gig hard drive to IDE 1, the 10.2 gig hard drive and zip drive to IDE 2 and the two CD’s to IDE 3. Everything worked fine. I hooked the 20.2 gig hard drive to IDE 1 as a slave and it was detected and showed up in explorer as drive D. But now I have a ATA 66 hard drive connected to a ATA 33 IDE slot and I am not getting the benifits of the higher speed
What do I need to do in order to use the ATA66 hard drive as my OS hard drive on the high speed controller and have it show up in explorer as C: drive? Where do I need to connect the other two ATA33 hard drives to get them to show up as D and E drive.
