Re: BIOS and Hard drives

["Jon Klimowicz" <jmklimow@xxxxxxx>]

If it is determined that the IDE controller is bad, to lazy to check it
yet, would it be a bad idea to continue using that channel or should I
just use the second one?

Jon

> On Sunday, December 18, 2005, at 08:39 PM, Kyle Schneider wrote:
>
>> Jon Klimowicz wrote:
>>> Wondering if anyone has any suggestions on why my motherboard is
>>> refusing
>>> to see a primary hard drive. I only have one drive plugged in to the
>>> primary IDE channel, set on master and plugged into the primary slot
>>> on
>>> the cable. According to my BIOS it is the secondary drive. If I plug
>>> another drive in it does not get recognized by the computer. I have
>>> tried
>>> using another cable and I know that is not my problem.
>>> Jon
>>
>> Have you checked the jumpers?  There's really no reason to use
>> anything but cable select anymore.
>
> Well, almost no reason. Explicitly setting for master (Except on a WD
> drive, which has it's own 'only 1 drive' setting) will be more likely
> to avoid this condition of 'set for something, shows up as something
> else'. Set for explicitly master, double-check the IDE ribbon isn't
> plugged in backwards, and curse the IDE bus developers for allowing
> there to be a backwards possibility. Oh, and check the drive on the
> secondary channel, to rule out the drive as the problem. Otherwise,
> sounds like the controller is shot.
>
> --
> Peter Corbett
> pwcorbet@xxxxxxx
>