Hard drives not detected or not working

[davidma]

I Purchased a couple of used 13gb hard drives off ebay, an IBM and a Maxtor. When I tried them in my Pentium 3, they are not being detected. I know they are on and I put them on the right IDE Channel.
Ive tried them as Master and as Cable Select.
My (American Megatrend) BIOS recognizes my original drive when I put it back, but no such luck with the new ones. Ive emailed the guy I bought it from today for suggestions but wanted to try this as well.

 

[G0AOZ]

Try the drives in your computer one at a time on the same IDE channel you use for your original drive. Make sure power connector is located correctly into the drive, and that you have the data (ribbon) cable round the right way. Can you hear the drive spin up? Try listening for spin-up with and without ribbon connector in place. Are you setting BIOS to AUTO-DETECT?

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[micker377]

How old are these hard drives? The reason I ask, is that some of the original IDE drives wouldn't work with auto-detect. You have to manually put the data printed on the hard drive into the BIOS setup. That's why the newer BIOS setups still have the "manual" setup provisions.