IDE to SATA

Steve_h · 17 Aug 2006 at 17:23

Just bought a IDE dvd drive (for the ram drive option) and an IDE to SATA converter that attaches to the back of it. Installed the Promise Fast Trak 376 driver from the original disc,as instructed in the board manual .
I then attached the drive via a SATA cable and re booted the pc.When it started loading the bios screen I noticed that it did not detect the drive at all and in windows its not there either.
I have had a look in the bios but cannot see any settings if any that I should change :confused:

I'm using a Chaintech Zenith Ultra 7njs which is nforce2 and Sata1 and windows XP pro+sp2.
I know it's a long shot but any ideas?

Steve_h · 18 Aug 2006 at 18:15

Bump

anyone????

rpstewart · 18 Aug 2006 at 18:48

I'm pretty sure the promise controller doesn't support optical drives over SATA, it's a common problem with the early SATA implementations.

Gibbs · 18 Aug 2006 at 19:09

you would have been better of picking up the SATA drive by Samsung, its under £30 with full SATA support.

Steve_h · 18 Aug 2006 at 23:11

rpstewart said:
I'm pretty sure the promise controller doesn't support optical drives over SATA, it's a common problem with the early SATA implementations.

Just my luck,I thought it was going to be something like that

Gibbs said:
you would have been better of picking up the SATA drive by Samsung

Unfortunately the Samsung doesn't support DVD RAM,which is why I went for the Pioneer.
I don't even think anyone does SATA drive capable of writing the RAM discs?

rpstewart · 19 Aug 2006 at 08:33

Can you not run the DVD drive from an IDE port? The IDE to SATA convertor should work fine with an HDD if you need to free up an IDE port.

Steve_h · 19 Aug 2006 at 19:18

I can't see how, if I can't get the DVD drive to work on the converter,how a HDD will?
Would be good if it would though.

rpstewart · 19 Aug 2006 at 20:23

I don't think the converter is the problem. It's the Promise controller on the board that's the problem - it can't cope with optical drives over SATA but it'll quite happily deal with an HDD.

Steve_h · 19 Aug 2006 at 22:00

Ok well I'll give that a go,just want to get rid of the IDE cables really as it's a bit congested around the back of my g/card.It's almost level to where the IDE cables attach to the board.
So do I need the Promise Fast Trak 376 driver installed?
And do I need to enable the Promise Raid function in the Bios or am I barking up the wrong tree!!?

Steve_h · 22 Aug 2006 at 18:11

well must be doing something wrong as it won't recognise the HDD when I attach via the converter