I've been assembling the kit I ordered, plus the extras I wanted and the last bits arrived today. Based on my experiences way back when I thought the HD's would appear in the order they were wired to the SATA terminals on the motherboard, with SATA 0 being the first drive, SATA 1 next, and SATA 5 being the last one (drive letter C through H, G & H being DVD drives). You need to know that I've also used one EIDE drive, and I've made it the boot drive so it IS the "C" drive and I've got the BIOS set up so that I do get that result. However the SATA drives don't come up in the order I expected, even after swapping their cables around several times.
I've tried several different cable variations, different order of which to boot from, but so far I can't get them to appear in MY COMPUTER in the order I want. EIDE drives used jumpers, SATA doesn't seem to so what have I missed here?
FYI the current arrangement is 1 EIDE drive, set to master by the jumper on it. 4 SATA drives, one which will be removed once it's cleaned up because it's from an external USB enclosure that has lots of photo back ups, plus 2 1Tb drives with the OS mirrored to them that I want as duplicate back up drives.
The C drive is from my old computer, and it has my OS, program files. printer files etc. Everything's working, but I would prefer that the order of drives matched what I want even though it won't effect performance.
