SATA/IDE channel configuration issues

Ok here's the setup:
First SATA Channel: Seagate 7200RPM 80GB HDD
Primary IDE Channel: LG 52x CD-ROM Drive
Secondary IDE Channel: Western Digital 7200RPM 160GB HDD
OS: Windows XP SP1
Mobo: MSI 865PE Neo2-P MS-6728 Version 2
The bios can detect all drives.
If I use the recommended On-chip IDE Configuration mode as mentioned on page 3-23 in the manual, Windows XP loads and then goes through the process of detecting the Primary and Secondary IDE channel.
After detecting it reports that Windows reports that the "Driver is not intended for this platform".
If you look under Administrative Tools in Control Panel is refuses to detect the PATA drive as well.
I tried swapping the PATA and the CD drives around but the above applied.
If I try the following drive configuration and set the bios ATA Configuration to PATA & SATA then all drives are detected in Windows:
First SATA Channel: Seagate 7200RPM 80GB HDD
Primary IDE Channel Master: LG 52x CD-ROM Drive
Primary IDE Channel Slave: Western Digital 7200RPM 160GB HDD
So what's up? I've tried tinkering around with Legacy/Native, PATA/SATA Only etc and I've run out of ideas.

I got similiar problem as b52 when I plugin an old P-ATA deathstar drive as master on first primary IDE and a LITE-ON dvd-rom as master on secondary. When I enter Windows the hardware auto wiz starts working and after a little while reports that two devices of type "IDE channel" have "Driver is not intended for this platform". I currently use the settings Danny recommends above. Weird thing is both the deathstar and the LITE-ON drive seem to work great. Of course I want to get rid of the exclamation marks in my device manager though. I read elsewhere drive emulation software could be a culprit, and renaming/deleting atapi.sys could be a problem solver - but not for me it turned out. Anyone got other methods to try out?
Elsewhere:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=545275f1f62ce2dd760878210076e500&t=860407

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What PIO bug?
There used to be a problem with Win2K, but that has nothing to do with the controller used, this was Win2K going wrong and that was fixed in SP1 or 2, forgot the exact one.
There fix should be in included in SP3 or SP4 (which i use). I saw couple of Microsoft posts how to deal with that. However, I found many postings in the web with the problem and very often the Microsoft fixed did not work too. I have been trying workarounds for a couple of days now. For some guys another driver did the job (e.g. some "SATA" driver, but I did not find a case with a SB700 chipset.)
Quote from: Bas on 03-January-10, 23:20:21
However, when putting the controller in RAID is doesn't use the normal IDE way but it uses SCSI (mini-port) way.
There are no drivers for Win2K, so use IDE mode or XP, btw AHCI in XP is fairly unstable too but that's an XP problem.
But you only have 1 drive, so why bother with RAID or ACHI? IDE-mode is faster anyway.
I agree. RAID/AHCI would have been a workaround for the slow IDE only.
Quote from: Bas on 03-January-10, 23:20:21
Set the controller in IDE mode and use the Microsoft drivers! as there are no specific Win2k drivers.
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This is my first post... so forgive any dumb stuff.
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Thats not 100% true. This is not a setting issue on the motherboard but the setting of the CD/DVD drive.
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On the external drives (for desktop PC) its possible to change such settings by switching the jumper but this is not possible to the slim notebooks drives.
The notebook drives settings are stored in the firmware!!
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Add P-ATA drives: "Driver is not intended for this platform" for IDE Channel

With the S-ATA drives in my sig everything has worked without problems for a long time...
But when I tried to add an old P-ATA deathstar drive as master on first primary IDE and a LITE-ON dvd-rom as master on secondary my Windows XP reports hardware problems. When I enter Windows the hardware auto wiz starts working and after a little while reports that two devices of type "IDE channel" have "Driver is not intended for this platform", hints from the status bar says Primary IDE Channel and Secondary IDE Channel are found before showing the error window.
I currently use these settings in BIOS:
Native Mode
ATA Configuration - SATA only
SATA Keep enabled - yes
PATA Keep enabled - yes
PATA channel selection - both
Weird thing is both the deathstar and the LITE-ON drive seem to work great in Windows. Of course I want to get rid of the exclamation marks in my device manager though. I read elsewhere drive emulation software could be a culprit, and renaming/deleting atapi.sys could be a problem solver - but not for me it turned out. Anyone got other methods to try out?
I've tried...
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-putting both devices on the same channel
-changing master/slave settings
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-uninstalling Daemon Tools and TrueCrypt
The only thing all this accomplished is the I now got 4 devices with exclamation marks instead 2 when starting out.
I posted the same question here but was recommended to start a new one:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=58269.0
This sounds exactly like what I got except I got the problems when adding drives, not upgrading bios:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=51681.0

I got rid of the problem
Turns out an older daemon tools version wasn't completely removed, I had to delete files starting with d346 from c:\windows\system32\drivers and then also search and delete registry keys found with relation to those files. Now my device manager reports no problems.
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03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
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Linux Sting 2.6.39-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jul 9 14:57:41 CEST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7350 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
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Channel 02 : 2.417 GHz
Channel 03 : 2.422 GHz
Channel 04 : 2.427 GHz
Channel 05 : 2.432 GHz
Channel 06 : 2.437 GHz
Channel 07 : 2.442 GHz
Channel 08 : 2.447 GHz
Channel 09 : 2.452 GHz
Channel 10 : 2.457 GHz
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Channel 40 : 5.2 GHz
Channel 44 : 5.22 GHz
Channel 48 : 5.24 GHz
Channel 149 : 5.745 GHz
Channel 153 : 5.765 GHz
Channel 157 : 5.785 GHz
Channel 161 : 5.805 GHz
Channel 165 : 5.825 GHz
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options cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=EU
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blacklist b43
blacklist ssb
Rebooted: no channel 13.
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I uncommented my country in /etc/conf.d/wireless-regdom.
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WIRELESS_REGDOM="NL"
Contents /lib/udev/rules.d/85-regulatory.rules:
KERNEL=="regulatory*", ACTION=="change", SUBSYSTEM=="platform", RUN+="/sbin/crda"
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COUNTRY environment variable not set.
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/sbin/crda
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SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument.
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according to the documentation those channels are disabled by default:
This generation of chips contain additional regulatory support independent of
the driver. The devices use a single worldwide regulatory domain, with channels
12-14 (2.4 GHz band) and channels 52-64 and 100-140 (5 GHz band) restricted to
passive operation. Transmission on those channels is suppressed until
appropriate other traffic is observed on those channels.
Within the driver, we use the ficticious country code "X2" to represent this
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you could try to enable them in the C code and recompile the drivers:
[root@minos:~/linux-next-a694cb1/sys]% grep -n X2 wlc_channel.c
487: "X2", LOCALES(i, 11, bn, 11n)}, /* Worldwide RoW 2 */
638: strncpy(country_abbrev, "X2", sizeof(country_abbrev) - 1);
647: strncpy(wlc->autocountry_default, "X2", WLC_CNTRY_BUF_SZ - 1);
[root@minos:~/linux-next-a694cb1/sys]%
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[root@minos:~/linux-next-a694cb1/sys]% sed -i '' 's/X2/EU/g' wlc_channel.c

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http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/1036/ender4aq5.jpg
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Quote from: Isiah on 14-March-07, 13:55:45
1. Is the drive flashed to the latest firmware?
2. Does it function correctly in other machines? (I transplanted a DVD-rom from machine to machine at work to re-install xp pro on one and the drive died somewhere in between)
3. Is the IDE cable attached firmly to back of drive and motherboard? (This can cause errors, crashes and other interesting phenomenem !)
4. Are did you re-install windows after changing motherboard?
5. Was is a DYI (do it yourself) build? <----------\
6. Are you a qualified technician or a home user? <---/\ = If you don't follow propper anti-static rules you will damage you components every time in some way, shape or form! (sick of people comming to me AFTER they have tried to do something themselves to save a few bucks and it ends up costing 100's or 1000's because they "thought" they knew what they were doing.)
1. I have no idea.
2. Yes, it worked in the same pc im using now, the old hdd was on the ide slot WITH the drive, and it worked fine. I just got the new SATA hdd, so I'm using that.
3. Yeah, cables are fine. The cable that goes into the SATA hdd seemed a little bent and was hard to put in, but I managed it so I doubt that's it.
4. I reinstalled windows on the new hdd.
6. Not really no.

Need inputs regarding the dvd drive on primary ide channel.

Specs:
Motherboard: MSI P35 Neo3 (MS-7935 1.0)
CPU: Intel Core2 Duo E6550
Memory: Team Elite DDR2800 (2x1GB Dual Channel)
Hard drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB 32MB Cache (SATA)
Optical drive: LG GSA-H55L (IDE only) Firmware version 1.02
Graphics card: Gecube HD3870
Chipset: Intel P35/G33/G31 (Rev. A2)
Southbridge: Intel 82801IB (ICH9)
LPCIO: Fintek F71882F
BIOS: AMI V1.1 (11/07/2007)
Hello,
Almost all new motherboards today only have a primary ide channel and the rest are SATA.
I need inputs regarding the dvd drive which is shown in device manager as located on the primary ide channel while the hard drive is located on the secondary channel. Because I would like to update the dvd drive to the latest firmware (version 1.06; to be able to recognize more blank media) but the LG site recommends that the drive (dvd) be located on the secondary ide channel.
I already tried to uninstall every channel from the device manager but all would still be the same after reboot, dvd drive on primary, hard drive on secondary.
Current ide mode in BIOS is set to AHCI+IDE mode, DMA modes are fine (UDMA4 for dvd, UDMA5 for hard drive), boot sequence (1st=HD, 2nd=DVD, 3rd=Floppy drive)
Tried switching to IDE mode only in BIOS but would not detect the optical drive. Never tried RAID+IDE mode since I only have a single hard drive.
I'm not sure but if I try to update the firmware, it might instead try to update the hard drive's firmware instead of the optical drive and make the hard drive unusable.
I would like to know if anybody with this same situation was able to successfully update the optical drive's firmware or is there some way to place the optical drive on the secondary ide channel and the hard drive on primary for me to follow and replicate the process.
Thank you for any replies.

Thanks sir NovJoe for the reply.
Just received the solution from another forum where I posted the same problem.
They said that the flash program for the firmware will detect the drive on its own and would not flash other devices except the optical drive itself. So its pretty safe, and I can confirm this since I just flashed my ODD a little over a while ago and everything went fine. No errors.
Though I'm speaking for the brand of ODD I own and may be different for other brands so take precautions as well. It may be different for the others.

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What can I do to get the secondary channel to work, or what other options do I have?
Thanks

I posted here at the end of January with the SAME problem.. I've got a K7T Turbo2, and the same thing is happening, the secondary IDE channel isn't picking anything up. I figured the board was defective, asked here AND asked an MSI tech through e-mail. I took the board back to the store and had them order another one for me, but I'm still having the same problem..
I've tried every drive configuration under the sun, swapping cables, trying drives one by one, enabling and disabling random things that should have nothing do with the price of rice in china, but nothing. Any clues would help, I can't keep taking boards back to the store.

IDE Channel Problem?

Some background...my computer went down because the motherboard went out. I installed a new one and it was DOA...so I went with an MSI 865PE Neo2-PFS (Platinum Edition). I got it up and running and everything is great except I get the following...
Currently, I have 2 HD's on the main IDE channel, 1 DVD-RW and 1 DVD-Rom on IDE channel 2. I have a third IDE HD with an SATA converter on it hooked up to my SATA 1 port. It registers fine and I can access all of the data. I just keep getting this error. When I disable it in the Device Manager, my "SATA" drive goes away.
By the way, I use the computer for music recording. I don't want to hook my HD up as a slave to an optical as this could cause problems. This config worked fine on my other mobo.
Any help is appreciated.
Windows XP Pro w/SP2
Intel P4 3.0Ghz w/HT
2GB Kingston Hyper X RAM

Quote from: Maesus on 04-March-06, 01:15:46
Is your WinXP newly installed with this motherboard?
It could be the SATA converter you probably need a better driver for it. Can you tell more about this SATA converter that you have?
No, it is the same installation that was on the drive prior to the new motherboard. Could I simply re-install the OS and clear this problem up without having to reformat the drive?
Oh, and here's the URL for the exact SATA converter I have.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812107112

SATA/IDE channel configuration issues

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