What brand of motherboard do you have? What brand of hard drive? Some
motherboards with Intel 875 chipsets had problems with 80 Gb Maxtor sata
drives.  I know Abit had those problems but they have been fixed with a bios
update.

My wd raptors don't have jumpers except to change the power settings.
Confirm your jumper settings.

Recheck your bios settings. In some bios there are two different places that
need to be set for SATA. Abit's bios for the IC7 were very confusing in the
first couple of versions.

Make sure you have the latest bios.

Ben Moore

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Subject: [PCBUILD] SATA Hard Drive

I have installed an 80 gig sata hard drive on my new computer which is sata
ready. The hard drive is not seen thus windows 2000 can not be installed.
When I go to the bios, it does not show any primary disk. When I install a
test drive in an ide slot, it shows up on my system. Any suggestions what
can be wrong? I have check all of the jumpers and bios settings but this is
my first experience with this type of drive.

Bob Zuccarello

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