second Hard Drive Problem SOLVED

[surfer96822]

GA-G31M-S2L

 

Had many issues with 2nd HD as master channel 1 (used this drive for media storage)

 

Boot drive 10.6.3 master 0

 

HD master Ch 1

DVD slave Ch1

 

 

 

Finally in enhanced mode (bios) I swapped sata cables until what apparently shouldn't work, worked.

Bios settings (integrated peripherals)

Primary PCI IDE disabled

SATA mode enhanced

Legacy USB stirage disabled.

 

SATA port 0/2 set to Ch 2

SATA port 1/3 set to Ch 3

 

0 master none

slave none

 

2 master WDC 1 gig drive

2 slave asus drw 24b1st

 

3 master hitachi HDT725 (boot drive)

3 slave none

 

 

 

 

I have read that OSX requires channel 0 to boot ??