Still no luck with second drive on Win98 box

[Guest_imported]

JUst thought I would try again to see if anyone has any ideas. I have installed a new 40G hard drive, formatted it and have Win98 up and running. What I am trying to do is run my old hard drive (with all the old files) as a slave drive. The bios recognizes the drives both old and new and the drive letter appears in Explorer as D: for the old drive. However, if I try ;to access the drive I get a windows error "Drive D:\ is not accessible". I can run either drive alone as the master and they work but I cannot run them as master and slave in any combination (I've tried them all) I have checked the jumpers and reset them back and forth as well. I have not yet tried setting the jumpers for cable select and set the drives up that way.

Anybody have any ideas?


Any and all advice gratefully accepted>

 

[mainegeek]

Are the drives FAT,NTFS or a mix of both?

 

[Guest_imported]

The drives are both FAT32. It seems strange that the bios (and a DOS disk management tool that came with the new drive) can find and identify the drives but once the operating system has loaded I can't access the drive, in either WIN98Se or a DOS window.

 

[Snickle]

Cable Select requires a data cable that is marked Cable Select. The purpose is to avoid setting jumpers on the drive to change whether one is Master or Slave. But the computer has to be opened anyway to change the data cable so where's the logic? CS does make it easier for the 'brands' on the assembly line, all drives are received set as CS and the line workers just have to put them in the right place and plug in the cable, not much thought process needed.

Some of the newer 80-pin UDMA66/100 data cables need to have the Master at one end and the slave in the middle, similar to the CS cable but jumpers still need to be Master or Slave.

 

[wolluf]

Berton,

Your last point's not right. You can set drives to CS on the 80-pin cables (that's how my machine is set up and running).

Rhoman

Can you run second drive as master on second IDE connection? (even if only temporarily - could copy old files to new drive - and if you can successfully fdisk & format old drive when back as slave - copy them back).

 

[mainegeek]

What is the old drive?

 

[Guest_imported]

Wolluf

I've tried so many combinations by now that I'm beginning to lose count. I'm pretty sure I tried to run both drives a masters on the two IDE connectors with no result. I will give it one more try to be sure though. Thanks

mainegeek

The drives are a Segate Barracuda ATA 40G drive for the new drive (master) and a Maxtor DiamondMax ATA 20G hard drive for the old drive (slave).


Back under the hood again, I'll report back and new developments.

 

[Guest_imported]

Back again! I think I'll give up. I just tried to set both drvies a maters on separate IDE connectors with no luck. For those out there who have tried to help here is one last shred of info before I fade away. The motherboard is an ABit BE6 with 4 IDE connectors on board. The full configuraton of my machine (at present) is:
IDE 1 Master and slave hard drives
IDE 2 CD ROM (Master), ZIP Drive (slave)
IDE 3 empty
IDE 4 empty

I have just tried moving my old hard drive to IDE 3 and re-jumpering it as a master drive. The computer would not recognize it. I know that I have tried to run the new drive in IDE 1 and the old drive in IDE 2 without any other drives (no CDRom or Zip) with negative results.

Time for bed.

Feel free to have the last word. Maybe that last shred of info rings some bells.

Thanks again to all

 

[GrandpaCarl]

RHOMAN,

See your old thread. I did not realize you had started a new thread.

GrandpaCarl