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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
right. i knew it was something like that. thanks dennis.
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You're welcome.
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dear god, that would drive me INSANE !!! i've only got 3 harddrives connected (one internal sata, 2 external ide) at the moment, but i use the external ones as backup and also daily-accessed storage so if they started blinking on and off i would probably end up throwing something through the window really soon.
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It was worse with my previous motherboard. That mobo was an "old one failed, need new one fast/cheap/
now go to local Korean clone shop and get one" deal. I should have been in a bit less of a hurry.
It had one IDE port on the motherboard, and two SATA connectors, and one PCI slot. Okay - plug boot drive and CD into onboard IDE port. Plug SATA drive into one of the SATA connectors. Plug a Promise Technology Ultra IDE 133 PCI IDE card in the PCI slot, which provides two more IDE channels with four possible IDE devices, and plug in more drives.
Mobo is
weird. In default config, it sees the two SATA drives as
IDE devices, and can accept up to four IDE devices total, period. You guessed it - it meant no more than four drives attached, as drives above four would randomly drop off the system. I had it happen to the Ubuntu drive while I was
in Ubuntu. Gee, no wonder installation of updates is failing - the file system they are being written to just disappeared... (Ubuntu was doing everything in RAM and actually stayed up. God only knows what Windows would have done on that circumstance.)
I'm carefully about what is connected where, so if drives drop off, they are drives I can live without till I have time to shut down and fiddle.
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"oh noes ! it must be a virus !!" 
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Something like that...
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Dennis