"primary slave hard disk fail"

[seonaidh]

Trying to add an additional hard drive to my PC. When BIOS loads, I get "primary slave hard disk fail". I've already made sure the jumpers were correct (more than once). I've tried auto-detect in BIOS, but it finds nothing.

I'm pretty sure it's either a BIOS setting problem, or I've got the ribbons mixed up.I've no idea how the ribbons are supposed to be set up. Any ideas would be really appreciated.

 

[wlpsyp]

If using one ribbon.... on one side of the ribbon, you will see a faint red line. That is for pin one. Pin one is the closest to the power connector. Look on the hard drive it will (should) say where pin one is, just line up the red side of the cable to pin one on the hard drive. If you are using a three connector cable, one end will go to the motherboard, then the end with two connectors closest will go to the hard drives. Primary should be connected to the end and the slave to the middle. On the hard drives, make sure one is primary and the second is slave, do not use cable select