Just got an HP 2.2g (in pieces). It had a 60g drive with xp home on it. We took my 60g out of my AMD system, and my 40g slave and tried to hook them up in the new system. For several hours we had trouble getting it to recognize the drives. It would see the two CD roms, but no HDs. Changed ribbons etc, and finally changed to the original master. Got the master and slave to recognize, but not the CD roms then. One pair or the other, not both. After a few more hours (no idea how) we finally got all four drives to recognize. You'd think we'd leave well ebough alone, but nooooo. The board was going into a different box, so out everything came again. Now for the last three days, we've tried to get windows to see the slave. It will recognize the master, slave and cd-roms in bios and in the device manager, but the slave will NOT show in my computer. We've tried several different drives both as masters and slaves, changed ribbons, changed settings to cls, uninstalled and reinstalled the slave and still, it doesn't show in My Computer, but it does in bios and in the device manager. For quite some time we did have trouble auto detecting the drives in bios as well, but for the moment they are auto detecting. Short of declaring this board posessed, is there something we're missing?

Sounds like you did everything right as long as the jumpers on the slave is set to slave, and master is set to master it should work fine. You did check your jumper settings right? Also I found that if your going to use cable select on the drive both need to be set that way. I am currently running two drives on Maxtor (master) one IBM (slave). What I did was make sure the master was running and setup completely before attaching the slave. Also my preference is for the main drive to be NTFS as it seems to handle multiple drives better slave can be either.

The hd that came out of my AMD system is NTFS. The 40g slave is fat32. All other drives we've tried are fat32. The jumpers are right. We can't figure out what else to try. Starting to think it has something to do with the proprietary bios (can you tell I don't like proprietary boards?). The guy we got the board from is convinced that my hd won't boot because it came out of an amd, which makes no sense at all to me. Especially since no drives recognize as slaves in my computer. Why would bios AND the device manager see the slave, but not My Computer?????

Well if that is the case, you should check the MB Manuf. site to see if they have a forum for these types of problems. If the guy told you it's because the drive came out of an AMD system......umm find a new guy. Like most problems it is probably something really simple, in the BIOS. With the drives recognized do you leave the BIOS at Auto for the Hard drives or do you let the BIOS find them and save thier settings? Mine are set as well as my CD's so there is no Auto detection at boot.

We've tried both auto and user settings with the same results. The board is out of an HP Pavillion 514n. The thing I don't understand is why it worked for a day, and now that it's in the other box it doesn't. Formatting the slave may work, but I can't do that since it's my data drive.

Well without looking at it probably can not be much more help to you. I feel for you though HP's are one of the worst when it comes to addons. Personally I would get a gigabyte board. Good Luck