K8N Neo4-FI Major IDE-problems (Only Pio on some disks)

Just registered so hello everybody!
I just got me a new rig which is seen in my sign. It took me a long time to figure out that you couldn't install Win on the Sata drive without having all of the IDE disks offline, but eventually I think I read that somewhere here and  made a successful installation of the incredible Win XP  .
When I was finished with installing I connected all the IDE-drives (Ch01: Seagate 160GB as master and Seagate 300GB as slave; Ch02: Seagate 80GB as master and NEC DVDRW as slave - all jumpered properly) it took me an even longer while to figure out that IDE wouldn't work at all with the supplied (and/or downloaded) Nvidia drivers. But I read that somewhere here too.
Now my rig is pretty much set up, but not working as it should - and when you've just spent some 800 Euros on a new comp you don't want to engage in compromises.
Problem is that having the IDE drives connected (regardless of configuration) makes the boot time incredibly long, while with only the SATA drive connected it is very rapid. But the problems doesn't stop there...
The slave on Channel 1 (the 300GB) and the master on Channel 2 (the 80GB which is not on the controller card) are both ran in PIO mode, and this seems impossible to change. I have read a lot about IDE problems with the Nvidia chipsets on this forum including what is in the FAQ and other places about how You should config your IDE drives to have them work properly but nothing seems to work. I'm beginning to consider sending MSI an angry e-mail telling them what I think about this bullsh*t.
Does anyone have an idea apart from what has been written and explained already on this forum (I'm pretty certain that I've read it all).
Best,
C

Quote from: c-boy on 24-March-06, 04:45:26
I'm upping this a little...
I narrowed the problem down, and I'm getting desperate now. Unfortunately, the MSI support hasn't been of much help so far.
I've read and read at all sorts of forums and the ones to blame are NVIDIA, since many people regardless of their board brand have issues.
However, I have now connected the 300GB with NVIDIA drivers, and it is found, and present in the disk manager, but no data is found. It is also marked as "unallocated" in the disk manager. Since I'm a musician and that disk has a lot of samples and music I need I don't wanna format it although I may be able to get all data back if I do.
When the drive is connected with the intergrated WinIDE drivers the data on it is found but it doesn't perform in anything but PIO mode.
I've had the new system online for almost a month now, and my Win installation is getting set-up to what I need, therefore I don't really want to reinstall. But, do you folks think that it would help to reinstall Windows? And not go anywhere near the NVIDIA drivers again.
I'm suspecting that they f***ed everything up at first but I'm not sure. I'd be ripping my hair off if I reinstall Windows and the problem remains.
I also invested in hi-quality ATA cables from Thermaltake recently, no difference though.
Any input (on topic) would be appreciated.
Regards,
C
 What a coincidence, I happen to be having a similar issue. My sec HDD (maxtor) appears on Computer Managment/Disk Managment as "unallocated" as well.
 I have  tried any trick that I know of without any success. Reading your post gave me the idea of buying an expansion card. However, I refuse to spend the money on something that should work in the first place.
 I strongly belive that the issue here lies on the mobo itself, as I have been able to get it to work on only one IDE conector.
 Hey let me know if you ever manage in getting it to work.

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