Conference noted::ibmpc-95

    Similar situation to the base note....
    
    Asus motherboard, supports 4 hard drives via 2 IDE cables.  I want to
    attach 3 drives:
    
    		1.6gb Caviar (western digital)
    		Mitsumi 12x CD rom
    		540mb Maxtor
    
    The problem is, I can only get the system to see 2 disks, not all 
    3!  I have tried a variety of combinations of primary master/slave
    and secondary master/slave.  I have swapped cables and where on 
    the MB they are connected. 
    
    Both hard disks are formated, and I can boot from either one.
    
    I have checked the jumper on the MB to allow 4 hard drives.
    
    I even pulled out the sound board to make sure it was not causing an
    IDE address conflict.
    
    Any ideas??
    
    Thanks!
    jeff
    

    Re .12:
    
    When you say the system "won't see" all 3 drives, do you mean via
    BIOS Setup?  IDE CD-ROM drives never appear in Award or AMI BIOS
    Setup; at least, not in the recent ones I've used.
    
    Set up the WD as the master on IDE0, the Maxtor as the slave on
    IDE0, and the CD-ROM as either master or slave on IDE1.

    
    I agree that the BIOS setup screens will not show the CD-ROM.  However,
    there is a screen displayed just before MSDOS startup that shows the
    configuration and shows what drives are configured.  This screen does
    display the CD-ROM.
    
    I have tried the combination that you suggest.  The CD-ROM does not
    show up in the display, nor is it found during any of the startup.
    
    My other guess is that the secondary IDE is somehow still turned off, but 
    I can't figure out how.  The jumper is correct and I can't find
    anything in the BIOS..  (Award, 9/26)
    
    Thanks,
    jeff
    

    
    If you can boot from either drive, that must mean that each one has an
    active partition.  Boot from floppy and change the "slave" disk to not
    have an active partition and see if that help.s
    
    John
    

    Which disk is it you don't "see"? Under DOS/Win 3.1/ Win 95?
    Always the CD? 
    
    If not Win 95 you need a driver for the CD.
    
    Guenther

    Re .14:
    
    Award does have an "enable second IDE channel" option - I believe
    under "chipset features".  A quick check is to put one of the IDE
    drives on IDE 0 as master, and the other on IDE 1 as master - see
    if both are accessible.  If so, it's not the channel being disabled
    via BIOS.
    
    Are you running Windows 95 or 3.x?  95 *should* see the CD without
    a special driver; 3.x will need a driver loaded in CONFIG.SYS.
    
    Feel free to swing by 4x35 if you want to chat - I owe you one for
    my kids getting an airplane ride from the Young Eagles program.
    
    Tony

    I have a similar set of hardware - 2 Western Digital drives, a Mitsumi
    12x CD-ROM, Intel Triton II HX chipset with 2 EIDE channels, and Award
    BIOS. I don't recall having had a problem with detection of the devices
    except when I had the IDE connector in incompletely or backwards on the
    CD-ROM drive, so I suppose that's one thing you might check. If it's
    the same unit, pin1/cable stripe is next to the power connector, on the
    right when looking at the back.
    
    I had operational problems when the CD-ROM was the master or only
    device on the second IDE channel. I've had better results with the 2
    Western Digital drives as masters and the CD-ROM as a slave on the
    second channel. All 3 do show up on the initial "inventory" screen.
    However, my Linux boot seems to have problems detecting the IRQ on the
    secondary channel and refuses to enable DMA on it, so something may
    still not be entirely kosher.
    
    In my BIOS setup, I have drive type "auto" for all 3 and I have
    disabled the empty IDE slot (slave on the first channel). On the
    PnP/PCI screen, I have "PCI-AUTO" for "PCI IDE IRQ Map to". On the
    "Integrated Periherals screen", I have HDD block mode and On-chip 2nd
    IDE channel enabled. I can't look right now ( :-) ), but I think I have
    "PCI slot 2nd IDE channel" disabled. IDE Primary/Secondary Master and
    slave PIO settings are both "auto".
    
    -Tom
       

    Thanks everyone for your help...
    
    As I suspected, I missed one line in the "Chipset Features" menu...
    Even though all 4 drives were set up as "AUTO", there was an additional
    line of "Onboard PCI IDE Enable" which I needed to change to "BOTH"
    from "Primary".
    
    I am now able to see all 3 drives..
    
    Thanks!
    jeff
    

I have a PCXL 466d, on-board SCSI, 1/2G Hard Drive.  I am trying to add an RZ29
(4 Gb).  When I FDISK, all I can do is set up a Primary with a maximum 1G. I
can format and the disk behaves properly, just at 1/4 of its capacity. 

I must be missing something.  Or am I stuck with 1G maximum per drive? 

Dave

    What version of the BIOS are you using on your system?
    
    What operating system are you using?
    
    

>    What version of the BIOS are you using on your system?
Bios - V1.22

>    What operating system are you using?
Using DOS running Win 3.11
    
    

    Sounds like you have to enable SCSI controller support for >1 gig drives. 
    That is done in the SCSI BIOS (Ctrl-A as the card BIOS loads on an
    Adaptec).
    
    Jason