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which drive do the video files reside on?
Any idea why you have the Maxtor udma off?
Any idea why the maxtor and one of the seagates are dynamic disks?
It kinda looks like you wanted to set up raid and kinda got lost...
Is the ide set to jbod or raid in the bios ?
Well I changed my drives around so each is on it's own controller, but by doing so I created a unique problem which I am not sure who to resolve. When I switched the cables on the Maxtor and the DVD the Maxtor is now showing as an IDE, [good], but the DVD is now showing as a SCSI. There is nothing in the BIOS that I could find what would suggest it should be SCSI or to emulate it.
I also upgraded the firmware.
I have just copied a DVD and it worked fine, no problems. Next I will attempt the other copy I was trying earlier but it looks like I have made some progress.
Any ideas why the DVD might be showing as a SCSI?? [it is connected with IDE cable].
Thanks,
I think XP has got thoroughly confused driver wise.
If you are not using raid, then you should set up the machine as follows
IDE drive - primary master - jumpered as single master or master without slave. Plugged into the end of the IDE cable. See page 4-14 of your motherboard manual to check the settings. In addition you should have bus mastering enabled (page 4-29) and the ite8212F controller set to IDE (page 4-26)
Ideally since you are not using raid you should convert the dynamic disks to basic - but note that you must back up your drive first since it involves deleting the volume and reinstating it as basic.
DVD drive - secondary master - jumpered as master and plugged into the end of the IDE cable.
Now for the SATA drives - page 4-15 of the manual shows you how to set them up as IDE only - Configure SATA as Standard IDE should be set and Onboard IDE operate mode should be set to enhanced with enhanced mode support on left at the default setting (S-ATA)
Having got that lot right reinstall the Intel(R) software Installation Utility V6.2.1.1001 for Windows 2000/XP/2003 under the "other" + sign.
Then go to windows update.
Thanks very much for all your help, ... it's been a long trip. One last question. You suggest converting the dynamic drives to basic. Is there a reason for this as in better performance, more reliable, or ???
Thanks again
have a read here and note that XP does NOT provide fault tolerance.
In addition you get problems like this
In other words, if you don't need the dynamic capabilities because you are not running a raid array, don't give yourself the headache of when it all goes wrong!