Re: BIOS and Hard drives

[Peter Corbett <pwcorbet@xxxxxxx>]

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.

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Peter Corbett
pwcorbet@xxxxxxx