sata master sata slave

i have conected a sata slave to my nec computer it also has a master
slave now windows wont recignise it!! i went through my bios and it is
showing as being there any ideas on how to get it into my windows so i
can save things on it??:confused::confused:

ok i am sorry it was not a slave i was just trying to attach the 2nd
hard drive it is formatted and i have the sata cable as i said it is in
dos just not my windows

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There are no "SATA slaves". Please find out what you really have.
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Arno

That's what I once thought. A while back, a poster in one of the
windows groups was having drive problems. He included the
report from the drives' diagnostics, which referred to a SATA
slave. I didn't believe this at first, then did some investigating
with my own system and came across this in my ASUS P5B Dlx
motherboard manual:

Serial ATA hard disk drive connection



disk

disk

This apparently comes from the Intel ICH8R spec.

The ATA definitions of master (boot), and slave (non-boot),
also apply to SATA.