Am I missing something?

[trolley]

I just bought a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 200gb hard drive to put into my Intel motherboard. Found out the motherboard did not support the new drive and went out and bought a Adaptec ASH-1233 ATA adapter card. Still not able to get the drive to be seen. I used a old IDE cables I had in my spare parts bin. I read through many discussions and I am confused. Should I go out and get a ATA IDE cable?

Any help would be very much apprecpriated.

Oh! by the way, I was planning on installing Linux and Unix onto it.

 

[edfair]

A drive that large is going to be new enough to need an 80 conductor cable.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[garebo]

you definitely must use the 80 pin ide 100\133 cable, the 40 pin ide 33 cable wont work, that is likely what the prob is, as already stated by edfair, who knows his stuff!

 

[paparazi]

trolley
The issue should be? that an older motherboard may not be able to see the FULL CAPACITY of this large drive.
But! you say "Still not able to get the drive to be seen"
Under normal circumstances the 200GB would just show up as 130 something gigabytes, so not showing the full capacity.
Usually this can be rectified by updating the bios for the motherboard and then patching your operating system with the latest service pack.
Make sure your Primary controller master/slave is set to auto detect in the bios.
Hard drive Drive jumper is set to master
That you use a fine 80 core ultra IDE cable on the Primary IDE motherboard connection (leave on it's own if poss)
Martin

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[dkdude]

Try disconnecting all drives but the new HD and see if it shows up in BIOS... then take it from there, one drive/mode (master/slave) at a time.


Jakob