On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > Boot partition is not involved here. Its on a a different (IDE) disk. > > Its not on a partition actually but in the MBR of Master drive on > first IDE controller. The newly added disk is sata and is on a PCI > sata controller (Adeptec 1205sa).
After re-reading your first post, my guess would be: your new drives are SATA II but your Adapter controller does not support that, according to http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/sata/sata_host/ASH-1205SA/ Most drives have a jumper to put them into 1.5gbps mode (rather than 3gbps mode). See if your new drives have one of those jumpers.
