Not all IDE hard disks are detected by my BIOS

[Tony Nelson]

At 12:20 PM +0100 8/18/06, Paul Smith wrote:
 ...
>I was not the one who connected the hard disks to the motherboard, but
>instead the vendor of it. However, I suppose that the disks are
>directly connected to the motherboard. Anyway, I can boot in those IDE
>hard disks, with no problem. My question was motivated by the fact
>that, at the boot time, I always get as a result of an IDE scan:
>
>Drive 3: Not detected
>Drive 4: Not detected
>
>After all, in practice, I do not see any serious consequence.

Probably there is no Drive 3 or Drive 4 on that interface.  You might want
to take a look inside the case.  There may be a PCI card; there may even be
more than one (pair) of (S)ATA connectors on the motherboard.
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