This is strange...

[mobkon]

I put in a second hard drive today, the same exact brand (western digital). I made sure the master primary drives jumper settings were "Master with Slave". Then for the slave drive i made sure the jumper was set to "Slave". The IDE Cable is even marked which connector is MASTER and which is SLAVE. So I put the SLAVE connector into the Slave drive. I boot up and it says Cannot Find Drive Please Enter Floppy. Or something along those lines. It says it cant find ANY drive at all. But as soon as I reconnect everything the old way and take out the Slave drive it works fine. the BIOS doesnt even see ANY drives at all when the slave is in there. Why put jumper pin settings on HDs that dont work????????? Im confused. Thanks for any help!

 

[edfair]

If it is marked master and slave you probably have a cable select setup. Doesn't matter that a master selected drive can go on either place , but a slave can only go at the slave spot.
Easiest would be to verify that one of the wires is cut between the slave and master connectors (pin 29 ?) and select them both as c/s.


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

 

[mobkon]

Ok well now I tried to put the HD as a slave to my CD-Rom. I kept the jumper settings as slave still. When i booted up windows it gave me some notification that the hardware settings have been altered and I must reactivate windows in 3 days (!?!?!?!?) I dont even know where my serial is anymore, gotta dig around for that now, great. But does that mean that the computer is definitly seeing the drive? Cause it still does NOT see it in the BIOS. Also, I was a bit confused in what you said, I dont understand what pin29 is and if one of the wires is cut?

This harddrive might actually be "bad" because the whole reason im putting it in this comp is because it failed to show up in the main computer its usually in, so i tried switching to other comps and it still doesnt show up. Hoping this one it will work in.

 

[mobkon]

UPDATE:

I switched back to the original way I did it. Heres how it is now: Master with Cable Select jumper setting, then Slave with I tried Slave setting and Cable Select setting. Also, I tried all jumper settings on MASTER drive just to make sure. BUT even with all that, every time I boot up with the SLAVE attatched, I get a BOOT DISK Error and it asks for a floppy. Once i detatch the SLAVE, it boots up fine. I cant figure it out. Everything is set to Auto in the BIOS as well. And the BIOS doesnt see the drive either. Could the drive be bad?

 

[mainegeek]

Try it by removing the jumper from the Slave Drive entirely.

 

[BryanZ]

Did you try the drive on both controllers?
What is the boot sequence set to in the BIOS setup? Maybe it is looking at the secondary drive first.























PC Load Letter?!

 

[tomaso11]

This harddrive might actually be "bad" because the whole reason im putting it in this comp is because it failed to show up in the main computer its usually in, so i tried switching to other comps and it still doesnt show up.
You answered your own Question if it cant be seen the control board on the drive is probably gone.

Thomas

So...who actually cans the worms then?