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Old 6th Jan 2009, 19:33
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I recently bought a P45 motherboard and am looking to run two DVD drives along with a SATA Hard Drive. The Hard Drive is recognized by the bios, but only one of the dvd drives is (In Master). I was wondering what i have to do in order for the bios to recognize both DVD drives?

The hard drive doesnt seem to have a jumper place where i can move pins like the drives (master, slaves, cable ).

Please help!

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Old 6th Jan 2009, 21:09
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SATA drives have no master/slave - check molex and SATA connections, use another cable if you've got it.
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Old 7th Jan 2009, 06:18
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Are the DVD Drives definitely SATA ?

your comment "but only one of the dvd drives is (In Master)" makes me wonder if these are IDE drives.
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Old 2nd Feb 2009, 10:04
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These are IDE but they both have an IDE to SATA converter. I do not know what boot method to put them in, so i tried master (since sata's are already in master), but no luck. i ended up buying another SATA drive since only one of mine worked, and it fixed the problem.
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