SATA Master -- Disappearing IDE Slave

:angryfire:Hi All,
I can't seem to figure this out:
K8T Neo Sata Drive is my master or boot drive
IDE is second hard drive
After the IDE drive stops spinning it disappears from my system and of course can't be written to until I reboot.
This normally happens a few weeks after every reformat (cause by SP2)
** I have all the very latest drivers and all the latest bios for the motherboard**
I've been very disapointed with my MSI board...the no LED with SATA and now missing drives.
Can anyone help me solve this ... Im at a lost to figure it out.
Thanks
Op

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IDE Primary on motherboard
...OK...if there is no Primary Slave, remove the jumper from the Western Digital HDD and use the end connector of the IDE cable...if there is a Primary Slave (CD-ROM, etc) put both jumpers (HDD, other device) in the Cable Select (CS) position...
...WD PATA HDDs are tempermental...

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