Re: Windows XP Home will not reconize my older EIDE drive as a slave.

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On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 13:04:13 -0600, "D.Currie"
<dmbcurrie.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>The round cable is just a ribbon cable sliced up and enclosed in a round
>rubber hose or whatever. Unless of course you're talking about SATA which is
>a whole different thing. If the connector on the end is the same, it should
>work, if that old drive is good and is set up properly.
>
Its an SATA, the old one works
>Have you checked the bios to make sure the 2nd ide is actually turned on and
>set to Auto instead of None?
yep
>
Thanks
>"Dick" <dick5354@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:jcctj1hhc1av5jq2g69mulccnqcbisakti@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Mike, thanks for the response. The problem seems to be coming down to
>> the Dell/XP setup wants cable select but the new (late 2003) ultra is
>> a "round" cable and the (2000) western digital is a ribbon cable. I
>> cant set that up so I connected the ribbon cable to the second MB
>> connector and I get nothing. Capitol Crappola.
>>
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>> On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 05:43:13 -0500, "Mike Powers" <mikepowers5@xxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>How old is the drive? It may not be able to provide enough information to
>>>the BIOS for the BIOS to
>>>autodetect it. Some early EIDE drives used a psuedo CHS (cylinder, head,
>>>sector) presentation to the BIOS
>>>but still required the BIOS to know what that was. If you have the old
>>>computer setup information available that
>>>might be the place to look. Also go to the drive makes web set and look
>>>at
>>>specifications for setup there.
>>>
>>>Some drives have different jumper settings for master, master with slave,
>>>slave, and cable select. If you have it
>>>set to master with slave and no slave is present it may not work.
>>>
>>>"Dick" <dick5354@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>news:acpmj1dnk20n9eb0ikfftirn0hoeouisl5@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:26:59 -0500, Bob I <birelan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>If you put the old drive on a cable by itself does the BIOS recognize
>>>>>it?
>>>>>Also please read up on EIDE
>>>>>http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/eide.html
>>>>>
>>>> Its on the second ribbon cable slot by itself. The two DVDs are on
>>>> the first. The bios does not recognise it. I am a user not
>>>> technically inclined but I will follow the link.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>>*** wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:05:54 -0700, Malke <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>*** wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>I have a Dell Deminsion 4600 w P4 2.66 and half gig memory and a
>>>>>>>>large
>>>>>>>>harddrive. I need to hook up an older Western digital EIDE harddrive
>>>>>>>>( WD Caviar 172AA) to acces some data. The jumpers are set according
>>>>>>>>to the WD site. XP will not recognize the drive and I cant get the
>>>>>>>>bios to recognize the drive (the drive works). Crappola. Any help
>>>>>>>>would be appriciated.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>IIRC, Dells use cable select. Set your slave drive to cable select and
>>>>>>>make sure it is on the slave connector on the IDE ribbon cable (if you
>>>>>>>haven't done so already).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Malke
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cant set the slave on the same cable. It is EIDE and the master is
>>>>>> ATA -- diferent cable. I have the EIDE on a ribbon cable in the
>>>>>> second slot on the MB (first is the two DVD/CDs). I repeat -
>>>>>> crappola.
>>>>
>>>
>>
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