in my efforts to get moditor finished i changed the cdrom from my system and plugged it all in and thought it should work
what did i forget?
You sure it's a working drive? If it works fine in another machine, make sure the ribbon cable's plugged in correctly on both ends, and that it's not damaged. If that doesn't do it, check the jumpers on the drive, especially if there's another drive on that IDE channel (on the cable).
Does the drive open/close? If not, no power.
Is the HDD sata too, and is it working? If so, try powering down, swapping ports, and rebooting.
If not..
Could the SATA controller be disabled in bios?
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R9 290X+Kraken+Corsair H90, Xeon 5649@4ghz, Asus P6T-WS Pro
Are you using one of those sata power adapters? May want to try another one ive had several of them that created a short, some of them were soldered inside the connector in the wrong location. May want to check it out. I would also check to make sure the sata cables are not kinked or damaged at the ends.
...Um, wth?
Are there drivers that you may have forgotten to install? And what exactly doesn't work about it?
RIP Bucko
Great to see everything works now.