Asus A7N8X-Deluxe with SCSI boot drives and PATA to SATA drive slave conversion

Hi all

I have a problem with migrating my PATA drives to SATA on my
A7N8X-Deluxe board.

Researching before posting makes me think this a common problem and I
post in case this has been resolved.

Issue and setup
Motherboard as above with 1013 BIOS
I have an IBM SCSI controller hosting 2 x 36Gb SCSI drives as RAID 1
I have an Adaptec board running a DLT tape drive
I have 2 x PATA drives connected to the primary IDE channel
Originally installed Small Business Server 2003 with only SCSI drives
installed. Added PATA once OS was up and running - so MBR is located
on the SCSI drives.
This has run fine for 18 months or so.

On replacing the PATA for SATA drives, the system fails to boot. The
SATA drives are detected during BIOS detection. I hear the system
message "Now booting from operating system" at which point Windows
loads. Now, I hear a beep as the system reboots. I do not see the
Windows loader screen.

If I detach the SATA connectors from the drives, Windows boots -
reconnect, symptoms above return.

I also know the SATA HDD & controller works as I connected the SATA
data connector once Windows loaded and Windows/Disk Manager detected
and formated the SATA drive.

BIOS boot order set to SCSI. All other boot options disabled.

Any ideas or is this boot order a "feature" of this motherboard?

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Cloning to an eSATA drive
    ... windows after just turning it on (either in Windows Explorer or in Disk ... This behavior doesn't happen with the USB external enclosure drives; ... (even up to Intel's latest ICH10 SATA controller) ... default settings re the SATA HDD seem to work just fine and the external ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Once an hour hard drive access delay
    ... that continoulsly access addon hard drives attached to the SATA port of the motherboard or an addon SATA controller, it measures and records access time of each read command sent to them. ... This is seen on all the drives being measured. ... Turned out that the Windows handicapped access support was doing some sluggish check of something or other that locked up the machine long enough to drop a few frames of video. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain)
  • Re: Do I need the Intel INF Utility for SATA?
    ... > I am curious if I need to install the Intel INF file Utility on my Windows ... > USB2.0 devices or SATA HDs yet. ... I used Ghost to clone the drives; ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment)
  • Re: Do I need the Intel INF Utility for SATA?
    ... > I am curious if I need to install the Intel INF file Utility on my Windows ... > USB2.0 devices or SATA HDs yet. ... I used Ghost to clone the drives; ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)
  • Re: eSATA support
    ... SATA drive: a harddrive that uses the SATA interface. ... It has these maddingly easy to break off data cable connector. ... most prevalent of all the SATA drives in the market. ... eSATA connector is different. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware)
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