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Originally Posted by TomP
External will definitely work around the problem your having Greg. In the BIOS you might be able to tell it to look at the SATA drive first in the boot order, so it will not try to boot your IDE. They always seem to prioritize IDE over SATA, don't understand why.
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Thanks, Tom!
From reading the documentation that came with the ASUS motherboard, I get the impression that they expect up to 4 SATA drives to be configured in a RAID array.
This machine has 8 drive bays so I don't think it's a problem of mixing types of drives, but rather as you suggested, it wants to give priority to the IDE string.
I have an easy-to-use BIOS update utility that came with the machine but it doesn't seem to be happy with Windows Vista. I fear that means I'll have to resort to the you-have-to-learn-something BIOS updating method. Darn it.