How do I set up SATA HD without any IDE HD?

Hi.
I'm a newbie in the process of building a new computer.
It's been fun -putting together components physically- but...
...I'm stuck here ---> My plan is to use just one HD for now -Raptor 36.7gb- along with a 3.5" floppy diskette drive and a DVD Recorder.
The 3.5" drive is connected.
My Raptor HD is connected to "SATA1" on the board.
But I'm a little puzzled when trying to figure the IDE cable placement for my DVD Recorder- Do I connect it to "PRI IDE" or "SEC IDE"?
And does it matter that I will not have an IDE HD installed?
(And I'm guessing the IDE LED on my case will never be lit?)
I thank you in advance for any help.

Don't worry about the lack of DOS prompt - XP doesn't use DOS at all! That's why you boot straight from CD; in the old days you'd have to boot to DOS from a floppy to load CD drivers, and only then could you start Wndows setup from CD.
You don't need to press F6 to load drivers, the SATA controller should just work, and you can load all the chipset drivers, etc, that you need from the motherboard CD or whatever once XP's in. XP has a lot of drivers in it anyhow, I think that's partly why the install's four times bigger than 98!
Why is the setup not working? Is is not recognising the hard drive? It should say something like "Checking drive XXXX on XXX", and it'll say how big the drive is and that, and a yellow bar goes across!
I've got my Seagate SATA HDD on the same controller as you (SATA 1), and XP Pro saw it no problem.
If Setup just isn't seeing the HDD, you may want to check in the BIOS and make sure the SATA controller is enabled:
- under "Integrated Peripherals", select the "On-Chip IDE configuration" menu
(... er .... hang on, got to reboot my machine to check - I'll get back and edit this! ....)
Okay, back now, where was!? Ah, yes. Basically there's a number of configurations of this, and it also depends which BIOS version you've got. With XP you can use either Legacy or Native mode - Native uses extra interrupts which older OS's can't handle, so as I'm running 98 as well, I use Legacy. I'll give you my settings, using BIOS 1.7:
Mode - Legacy
Configuration - P-ATA+S-ATA
P-ATA keep enabled - Yes
Combined modde option - S-ATA 1st channel
Configure S-ATA as RAID - No
I've got a feeling this disables one of the normal IDE channels though ... anyway persevere with various combinations until both the DVD drive and the HDD appear on the "Standard CMOS Setup page of the BIOS.
Try searching the forum for older posts on this - this has been a hot topic of discussion, there are many posts describing the various combinations!
Then, it'll also be worth checking "Boot device select" under "Advanced BIOS features", and make sure the HDD is set as a boot device in there. Once you've got past the initial Setup stages, you can remove the CD from the boot list again.
Let us know how it goes, don't hesitate to keep asking questions!

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