Hi - I've just built an HTPC using this board with WD 'Green power' SATA hd (750Gb) and Pioneer SATA DVD drive. Processor is AMD. The hd is connected to the top right sata port on the board and the optical is connected to the top left port. According to the numbering on the board this equates to Sata ports 0 and 1 (?). When I boot up and go into set up IDE Channel 0 Master and Slave are shown as None. Channel 2 Master is shown as the HD and Channel2 Slave is shown as the optical drive. Neither are 'flagged' as SATA. Channel 3 master/slave are shown as none.
I have installed Linux (Ubuntu).
My first question please is whether or not the configuration information described above is correct or indicates a problem? The hd appears to be working correctly but the optical drive is not recognised by the OS. I am unable to determine at this stage whether or not the non-recognition of the optical is a hardware fault or is an OS issue and I am currently trying to reinstall the OS (Ubuntu) using a usb stick. This leads to my 2nd question which is that I am unable to get the MB to boot from a usb stick. I have enabled usb legacy storage and I have set usb-zip as the first boot device but nevertheless the board continues to boot from the hd.
My Bios version is 1.0 , I have not tried upgrading to 1.5 as yet unless I'm sure that will help.
Would appreciate any advise you can give please.
I have installed Linux (Ubuntu).
My first question please is whether or not the configuration information described above is correct or indicates a problem? The hd appears to be working correctly but the optical drive is not recognised by the OS. I am unable to determine at this stage whether or not the non-recognition of the optical is a hardware fault or is an OS issue and I am currently trying to reinstall the OS (Ubuntu) using a usb stick. This leads to my 2nd question which is that I am unable to get the MB to boot from a usb stick. I have enabled usb legacy storage and I have set usb-zip as the first boot device but nevertheless the board continues to boot from the hd.
My Bios version is 1.0 , I have not tried upgrading to 1.5 as yet unless I'm sure that will help.
Would appreciate any advise you can give please.
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