Multiple HDDs

[redefine311]

Ok, I wrote in before about installing XP to a SATA drive. I got that to work. I found the specific drivers I needed. Now, let me give the system info again.

Gigabyte Mobo: GA-N700 Pro2
AMD Athlon 2600+
Maxtor 80 GB SATA HDD
CD-RW/CD on IDE 2
FDD
Running XP Pro (all critical updates installed to date)


I have two more HD's I'd like to instal. 20 GB Western Digital and ~12 GB Quantum Fireball (or something like that). When I instal the drives on IDE 1 (in any combination so far) with what I believe are the correct jumper settings, the BIOS does not register the additional drives and boots normally to the SATA drive. Question #1, WHY? How can I get the system to recognize those drives?

Now, if I instal the drives to IDE3 (on the built in RAID of this Mobo) they are recognized by BIOS. If I set the Bios boot order to SCSI (and then SATA), CD, then finally Floppy it boots an old Win 98 operating system on one of the drives I am installing on IDE3. Question #2, WHY? I am unsure of myself here. So feel free to explain that you need more info or why I did something foolish.

Thanks very much for any help you can provide.

[CatScam]

My experience has been many times when mixing different brand name HD’s
things like this do happen. They seem to not recognize each other & all want
to be the master. I assume you know this but I’ll mention it anyway, on many
HD’s removing all jumpers set it as a slave, & that seems to have some luck
sometimes with getting them to work together.

[zen]

Do you have the bios set to auto detect or user defined?
Some bios have a special menu just for hdd detection.
You shouldn't have any problem using diff drives, as long as your jumpers are set correctly.