Hello Andre
  First I should mention that there is a distinct difference between
ignorance and stupidity.  Ignorance is fixable   Stupidity is to the bone. 
You are certainly the former rather than the latter or you would never have
even gotten past some OS/2 installs, let alone understand the value (at the
very least at one time) of SCSI, and some might say how that has been
eclipsed by modern IDE/ATA drives. Since you did not cave to convention or
flames and decided to try IDE/ATA for yourself, there has to be a working
brain in there. So, don't despair.  I think you're almost there.

  Within the bios setup utility there should be either under the
"Advanced" section or in it's own "Peripherals" section
(some older bioses even had "Chipset" for the most part, back
when AMI, Phoenix, and Award were separate and very different had a
separate "autodetect ide drives" or "peripherals"
section) there will be a list of the IDE controllers, Primary and Secondary
at the least.  These will have options like either
"Enable/Disable", "Enable Primary" "Enable
Both" or something like that.  There may also be a line to
"enable/disable/auto" such pertinent items as DMA, LBA, SMART and
such.  There might even be on a PIII board a line to activate and set a
delay time for IDE disks.  These are all associated with the motherboard's
chipset which includes IDE/ATA controllers and must be checked to see if
they are active or not.  If not, enable the controller(s) required first. 
You can worry about DMA, SMART and such after this is successful.  NOTE:
when you enable the controller(s
) you will have to reset (exit saving changes) to re-POST after enabling in
order to detect the drive(s).

This is very likely the problem since you have no need for such doings
within bios (or at least the mobo's bios) for SCSI.  You're just not used
to all the enabling necessary.  I've seen bioses with three (3) different
items on three different sub-sections required to get IDE working. 
Fortunately that's rare but do look through all the subsections in setup. 
This should likely do the job.

Jimmy
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Andre Nancoz 
> ** Reply to message from Daniela Engert  on Fri, 09 Mar 2007
> 19:09:53 +0100 (CET)
> 
> > Are you sure that the ATA controller channels are enabled? You first
> > post says they're not!
> 
> I presumed that the pci report of disabled referred to the fact that the BIOS
> scan of the IDE resulted in "none" when the primary IDE
master is set to
> "auto". The MB is set for jumper free and in any case the
only IDE jumper the
> manual refers to is for a RAID/IDE option which this board doesn't have.  The
> only other IDE BIOS options are to load the BIOS (enable/disable) and in a boot
> option (none/disable). I've tried all the combinations, the BIOS scan still
> reports "none".
> 
> I have no other IDE devices. I don't have a hardware background so I'm possibly
> making a stupid error.
> 
> -- 
> Andre




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