DS4 + IDE Controller anyone?

DCat · 18 Sep 2006 at 16:37

Hi, I want to use 4 IDE (2 x optical + 2 x IDE HDD) devices on my DS4 but the board one has one device port, so, I bought a PCIe card which provides an additional IDE channel. I've installed it together with the IDE drives but at hangs at boot on the "jmicron" screen and just says "searching for drives".

Anyone know how to fix this (other than selling the IDE drives and replacing with SATA)?

TIA.

DCat · 18 Sep 2006 at 16:51

FireMoon said:
Cart before the hosre?? you need to install the drivers for the PCI card on the system before you can access the drives on it... easiest answer would be to put your cd and one hardrive on the single onboard channel and boot up from there.. then when windows is installed swap the drives to the card channels...??

Not sure I follow you entirely ... but the process I followed was: put the optical drives on the mobo IDE channel before installing, used them to install the PCI drivers for the card, then inserted the PCI card and the IDE HDD's. So this should work :confused:

DCat · 18 Sep 2006 at 19:24

FireMoon said:
Installed them on what?? if you only had optical drives where were the drivers installed??

on my SATA OS drive?

DCat · 18 Sep 2006 at 20:23

OK mate thanks for the tips, will check it out in the BIOS.