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

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Thanks. Haven't seen one of those. Interesting.

Actually we've been working nearly exclusively with SATA HDDs over the past
couple of years so of course we don't have the PATA/IDE jumpering issues,
but this is the first I've heard of a mobile rack designed for PATA HDDs
containing jumper connectors. We have come across and worked with various
Vantec PATA mobile racks in the past but I've never encountered one with
jumper connections on the rack itself.

Would you be good enough to inform me of the model number of that device so
that I could get some more detailed info on it? Thanks.
Anna
 
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
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neil said:
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
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Just threw that out there in case he had such a model.

Kingwin. Don't have model numbers. They are about 6 years old at least.

Last 2 set, plus 2 extra trays I bought didn't have this jumper thing.
Double fans, all aluminum except plastic front on enclosure. Bout a year
old. Kingwin also.
 
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.

--
Dave
David Vair said:
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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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
 
Hi Anna,
I have checked everything again & the problem is still the same. I can't
understand it either, all your comments in the previous post are correct. I
have tried swapping drives in caddys and the result is the same, if I
connect the drive directly inside the case to the IDE connector that was
removed from the caddy the system boots on the 160Gb drive. If I then put
the drive into the caddy and connect the IDE cable to the tray it doesn't
boot. But the 120Gb does boot. I can only guess there is something about the
Seagate drive the caddy doesn't like but I don't have access to another
similar sized drive to try in the caddy. Ho hum, perhaps I'll never solve
this one and just have to use the 160Gb drive as another non boot drive.
Thanks for all your thoughts and help.
Neil
 
As others have suggested,
http://www.pcbanter.net/showthread.php?p=3020692
the caddy or bay enclosure may have problem.

Have you tried using the secondary ide cable to the enclosure normally used
for the Seagate? And, using the WD in that enclosure? If the WD doesn't
work, the fix is obvious....

--
Dave
Profound is we're here due to a chance arrangement
of chemicals in the ocean billions of years ago.
More profound is we made it to the top of the food
chain per our reasoning abilities.
Most profound is the denial of why we may
be on the way out.
 
I can't do that as the WD 250Gb contains data files as it's used as a
permanent drive for MP3, photos, videos etc. I leave that drive connected
internally on the secondary connector position on the ribbon cable.
I've tried swapping the drive into the caddy which normally houses the 120Gb
drive and even using another tray (what the caddy plugs into) the 160Gb
drive will not boot. The 120Gb or other 20Gb drives will always boot in the
caddys.
Thanks for the thoughts anyway. I have now fitted the 160Gb drive into an
external USB enclosure & I think I'll use it for external storage.
Neil
 
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