IDE Drive Cableing Confusion

[Ryuk]

I had bought a SYBA IDE PCI IT8212 Bootable card to replace the bad IDE port on my motherboard.  The unit has three IDE Drives an One DVD Reader/Burner up till this point I was unsure what the issue was with not being able to get it to read disks.  I'm not sure what Cable is being used to attach the disk drive to the card.  However, if I use something like a 80 pin IDE Cable it posts that it is slower then what is required an I lose the drive in Windows

[DaveLembke]

What OS is system?
What is the Hard Drive Make/Model?

According to this link its fully backwards compatible to the oldest IDE drives out there. Are you setting the jumpers correct? Jumper setting for CS "Cable Select" when it should be Master or Slave can lead to strangeness.

http://www.sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid=503

http://www.mikeshardware.com/howtos/howto_connect_ide_hd.html Some additional helpful reading material

[Ryuk]

XP an 7

Maxtor/

There useing seperate cables an there too far apart to use the same cable.  Thing is that if I use the know good cable with the harddrive it has no issues in windows but, the Disk Drive will lock the system up.  If its the other way the DVD Drive works but, the harddrive isnt there.

[patio]

Replace all IDE cables with 80 pin ones...NEW...don't use all the garbage ones you get from the scrap heap...
If there is no change then you will realise you bought one of the cheapest controller cards you can find...you get what you pay for.

[Ryuk]

The other thing is that Im not sure how to tell which, are 80 pin.  I think the cable came with the card thats there.  I used even a brand new cable an still had the same issue.  Im not useing the RAID features just the bootable one

[Computer_Commando]

[Ryuk]

I see a difference in the two there being that the 80 is bigger an has that hole through one of the pins.  However, I have a 40 an I gusse an 80 an they look the same too me :/

[hartbeatmr]

Good morning Ryuk

Ok I have bought those and it as always a big pain

#1... NO CD / DVD drives can be used on these cards only hard drives!!!!
#2... Use 80 pin cables and set jumpers correct to CS
#3... The blue IDE connector is primary the white is secondary channel
#4... It will only run as RAID not IDE
#5... I have tired with my card to flash it for IDE only and not raid and it was always a big headache it always reverted back to raid
#6... I know you want it to be used as IDE but Install the raid drivers and plug the drives in and the OS will see them and use them.

Good luck, let us know how you make out, Mike 

[Ryuk]

When I have a disk it says there is a bootable one in there an will boot from it.  It also, lists it in the spec's that it can.  Each drive is useing its own cable.   

[Ryuk]

I asked a local tech an he gave me a cable.  Think it's that mine were changed out too much. Seems that both drives work

[patio]

Replace all IDE cables with 80 pin ones...NEW...don't use all the garbage ones you get from the scrap heap...