PCI IDE controller card ot working. P5B Deluxe

My computer built on a P5B Deluxe has three HDDs and one DVD drive.
All are IDE drives as they were from the previous computer. I had one
HDD and the optical drive attached to a Promise PCI IDE controller
card. It all worked fine until a few days ago when the PCI connected
drives were no longer accessable. I attached them to the on board IDE
channels and they worked fine. I reinstalled the Promise drivers and
still nothing so I got another PCI controller card, a SIIG brand. It
also doesn't work. I'm thinking that there is something going on with
the P5B.

I'll replace the IDE HDDs with SATA drives eventually but I'd rather
not right now. Is this a known issue? I tried to go to the Promise
site but it's 404. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Strange PEER error with Danis 506 1.81 generic question
    ... In the case of everything so far up until the Intel 915GAVL/GEVL and still in research 945 series motherboards, there have been two IDE controllers on the boards. ... Thus the primary hard disk controller from which the finished box will normally boot would be the Master on IDE controller #1. ... if there were, for example, two IDE hard drives, one would be the normal boot device as the Master on the primary IDE controller. ... to generate a report of scsi and "fake scsi" devices on a mixed scsi hard drives/ide dvd burner and dvd-rom system but I seem to recall that all scsi devices got listed before any ide devices - including the scsi scanner I had. ...
    (comp.os.os2.bugs)
  • Re: Changing Harddrives whilst PC includes a RAID Array
    ... Booting from Acronis CD after re-attaching IDE drive to system didn't work ... I detached both SATA drives and booted from Acronis Cd again ... ... case to ensure that RAID is not being 'attempted'on my IDE drive. ...
    (comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage)
  • Re: Changing Harddrives whilst PC includes a RAID Array
    ... I assume if your IDE drive is NOT ... attached, the SATA array will still boot, correct? ... Option #2 (should be done w/ SATA and IDE drives installed): ... install on the IDE drive. ...
    (comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage)
  • Re: Changing Harddrives whilst PC includes a RAID Array
    ... I have reformatted the IDE drive, to remove any issue with the old Windows ... I turned auto-restart off in my SATA-based Windows install; ... Remove any newly installed hard drives ... is the first boot device and the IDE the second. ...
    (comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage)
  • Re: Having hard time retrieving Laptop hard drive data
    ... Most cables for desktop IDE drives are not polarized. ... Your statement that "Nearly all IDE females have the piece of plastic blocking in the middle" is incorrect. ... But, no, with the pin present, the female PC IDE cable automatically ...
    (comp.sys.laptops)