I bought a new Sony DVD writer(SATA). I already have a SATA Hard disk connected to my motherboard. When I connected DVD drive its showing in initial screen(i.e Scan devices... Serial_Ch_Master0: Sony DVD writer xxxxx Serial_Ch_Master1: STxxxxxxxx) where STxxxxxxx is my hard disk. But in BIOS screen, I am not able to see my new DVD writer in BOOT options. But I am able to see the drive contents after logging into Windows XP. I am able to read any DVD drive from the new drive I connected thro SATA. So please help me why I am not able to see the DVD drive in BIOS. Thanks.
For my SATA hard disk drive during windows installation it asks to - Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party device.... or somethink like that. I press F6 and provide the Floppy provided to me(VIA SATA RAID Driver) written over it, which is a driver for recognizing my hard disk. So I guess for my DVD driver too this same problem of providing some drivers is needed? If so, which one to get and when to provide this option? For HDD I didnt had this problem since it automatically asks to press F6 during windows installation. Please help me. Thanks.
Well you only need to install a RAID driver if you are using two or more hard disks in a RAID setup, so installing the raid driver during windows installation was probably unnecessary anyway. Also the BIOS doesn't use windows drivers, so any driver changes you make in windows won't affect the bios to begin with. As for why it's not showing up in the boot options, maybe you just have a screwy BIOS. Did you try pressing +/- over the existing boot options in the bios setup? sometimes it won't show up in the boot options (f12 usually) if it's not configured to be a boot device in the setup(f1 or f2 or del or somethin else depending on bios version).
Its working now!!! The problem was BBS-0 was my hard disk and BBS-1 was RealTek Ethernet controller I guess. And I didnt knew this was the one pointing to my DVD drive. So I was struggling. Now I got it Thanks everyone.
