Re: 160 Gb drive in a removable caddy give "disk error press ctrl alt del" on boot

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Hi guys,
I may or may not have covered this in previous posts, but just to be sure.
My working config is a Maxtor 120Gb drive in a caddy as cable select with a
WD 250Gb as a second internal drive also cable select.
If I disconnect the caddy and connect the Seagate 160Gb drive I can set it
up with windows XP with or without the WD drive connected. If I then put it
into the caddy, reconnecting the cable inside the PC to the caddy then the
Seagate 160Gb drive wont boot and gives the error "disk read error ctrl alt
del to reboot".
The caddy tray has a small fan attached and is a "Data-Castle" BT-27 RH
mobile rack.
Neil

"Lil' Dave" <spamyourself@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Agreed. Maxtor slaved with WD master or vice-versa is generally a no-no.
There's others, but that's the biggest one. It boils down to the
low-level ide communication method of each HD mfr as the source of the
problem.

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Dave
"David Vair" <dvair@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jumping in late here, what makes are the drives. Some manufacturers
drives don't like to play nice with other makes.
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Dave Vair
CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+

"neil" <neilp67_@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Dave,
The cable is the same cable connected to the bay as connected to the
drive directly & is 80 wire. (not sure how long but standard , came with
the motherboard)
Just referencing your other reply different thread, there is no link on
the drive enclosure and the 120Gb drive boots with either the link on
the hard drive set to master or cable select. The 160Gb drive wont boot
in the enclosure with the link in either position, but boots fine when
connected to the IDE cable inside the PC directly. (this is after
disconnecting it from the rear of the caddy.

Neil
"Lil' Dave" <spamyourself@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"neil" <neilp67_@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I wonder if anyone can answer this for me. I had a Seagate drive that
was deemed faulty with the above fault so I returned it under
warrantee. I received a replacement that gives the same error at the
first boot during the windows XP setup routine. With the drive in the
removable caddy the error occurs but if I connect the drive to the IDE
cables directly the drive will boot ok. I have a 120Gb drive normally
working in the bay and that has always been fine, my second drive is a
250Gb drive so the bios does not have a problem with large drives. All
IDE cables are 80 pins type.

Any suggestions are welcome.

thanks
Neil


Is the bay enclosure and caddy 80 wire capable version?
Are using an 80 wire cable from the bay enclosure to the ide port?
How long is the cable you're using for the bay enclosure?

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Dave










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