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| 58317 | 2002-06-29 06:42:00 | I have been having intermittent problems reading a primary slave, Maxtor 51024u2 10Gb (set to slave), connected behind a Seagate Barracuda 40Gb jumpered to master with non ATA compliant slave (the only slave allowed on this drive apart from cable select). M'board is Asus A7V266. Sometimes I have had to reboot and let cmos recognise the drive automatically. Sometimes I would have to do this a number of times before cmos recognised the slave successfully. I thought this may be a cable problem so change to another cable with no result. Everything has been working fine although the drive has been taken out and replaced a couple of times recently. Is this drive now non readable or am I missing something basic? Thanx for any hints or help. |
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| 58318 | 2002-06-29 08:03:00 | Does it matter where on the IDE cable you plug it in, ie end of cable for master? | Scotty D (491) | ||
| 58319 | 2002-06-29 11:12:00 | One of my hard drives needs tapping with a screwdriver to get it started after the PC has been off for a while. The spindle that the disks spin on can get sticky and there is not much that can be done if this is the problem. I just leave the PC on now. | Marty2001 (421) | ||
| 58320 | 2002-06-29 11:50:00 | With the seagate, the jumper should be set to 'Master or Single Drive'. This doesn't mean it can't have a slave - it's the normal jumpering for a Master with or without an ATA compliant slave. | wuppo (41) | ||
| 58321 | 2002-06-30 09:25:00 | Hey thanx for the reply, I have tried both drives on both ends of the cable with no result. Cmos won't auto detect a primary slave so I go to manually enter the drive settings as on the drives label, cmos won't let me enter the correct number of cylinders (16383) for the drive and overrides with a default setting (255) which is obviously far below. There are other options but none seem to work either. When rebooting a message comes up saying "Primary slave failed". I am asked to press f1 to continue and bootup continues successfully without the primary slave. |
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