"Patrick Page" wrote:
>I have installed to the point where Device Manager sees it
> and says it's working properly. At the moment of truth, when
> I connect my drives to the card and restart, Windows sees
> the drives as Secondary (not Primary) and hangs. How do
> I get the drives to be seen as primary?


I have no idea what you mean by Windows seeing HDs
as Primary or Secondary, but PCI IDE controller card will
see the HDs as being on the primary channel (ch. 0)
or secondary channel (ch 1). But what is important is
how the HDs appear in the HD boot order in the
motherboard BIOS. It will go to the HD at the head of the
HD boot order and look for its MBR. Then it will pass
control to that MBR, which in turn will pass control to the
boot sector of the "active" partition listed in the HD's
partition table. That partition better have the boot files -
ntldr, boot.ini, and ntdetect.com .

So, what you want to do is to put the HD with the boot
files - usually the one that has the OS - at the head of the
HD boot order. You can just go into the BIOS and set the
proper HD to the head of the boot order manually via
keyboard. Or, since most BIOSes, as a default, put the
HD jumpered as Master on ch. 0 (i.e. the Primary channel)
at the head of the boot order, you can just plug the IDE cable
that connects the 2 HDs to the conroller card into the other
IDE connector on the card. IOW, you just plugged the cable
into the wrong connector on the card.

*TimDaniels*