tricky un-recognizable IBM 20GB?

[chenwenjun]

it was 4 years old laptop
it was IBM 20 GB, the user told me that the system just suddenly off, and I tried the bios, no hard drive detected, I tried with my tools I have (fdisk, sfdisk, pqmaic6,diskman,lformatter1.1 and so on)
all tells me no hard drive found!

and I unplug the drive and try another one, which was found readily....
thanks
wenjun

"up to the brim."

 

[garebo]

Sounds like the hard drive is dead.
But first check your jumpers and make sure you have them right, check with the manufacturers website to get the right jumper setup, unless you have it set to cable select.
I remember having a problem with a hard drive set to cable select, so i changed it to master and it worked fine.
Not supposed to happen, but.


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[chenwenjun]

thank you very much.
unfortunately,you are right, it is dead, i am afraid.
the label of the hard drive shows , no jump means device 0. which was I was using.

thanks a lot anyway,

wenjun

"up to the brim."