BIOS misidentifies new drive

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Hi - I installed a new Seagate 80 gb ATA drive on primary ide
controller, formatted it and installed Win2k. It boots and behaves
fine as long as it's the only HD installed. However, adding a Maxtor
80 gb as slave on the primary ide causes the system to return garbled
gibberish (rather than the seagate id)at master and 'none' at slave.
It id's the two CD-R drives on the secondary ide appropriately. Of
course the system won't boot from the HD.
Drive id is set at 'auto' in the bios setup and works fine when two
maxtor drives are installed on primary ide, or when the seagate is
alone.
I've double (triple) checked the jumpers, and flashed the bios, still
no joy.
Any pointers with this frustration will be warmly appreciated. Thanks
Steve
 
stevec said:
Hi - I installed a new Seagate 80 gb ATA drive on primary ide
controller, formatted it and installed Win2k. It boots and behaves
fine as long as it's the only HD installed. However, adding a Maxtor
80 gb as slave on the primary ide causes the system to return garbled
gibberish (rather than the seagate id)at master and 'none' at slave.
It id's the two CD-R drives on the secondary ide appropriately. Of
course the system won't boot from the HD.
Drive id is set at 'auto' in the bios setup and works fine when two
maxtor drives are installed on primary ide, or when the seagate is
alone.
I've double (triple) checked the jumpers, and flashed the bios, still
no joy.
Any pointers with this frustration will be warmly appreciated. Thanks
Steve
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FWIW, I have seen something similar to that happen with a bad cable.
 
stevec said:
Hi - I installed a new Seagate 80 gb ATA drive on primary ide
controller, formatted it and installed Win2k. It boots and behaves
fine as long as it's the only HD installed. However, adding a Maxtor
80 gb as slave on the primary ide causes the system to return garbled
gibberish (rather than the seagate id)at master and 'none' at slave.
It id's the two CD-R drives on the secondary ide appropriately. Of
course the system won't boot from the HD.
Drive id is set at 'auto' in the bios setup and works fine when two
maxtor drives are installed on primary ide, or when the seagate is
alone.
I've double (triple) checked the jumpers, and flashed the bios, still
no joy.
Any pointers with this frustration will be warmly appreciated. Thanks
Steve
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Most 80 conductor cables are Cable Select, both drives should be set to
the CS setting with the boot drive on the end connector.

Mike.
 
Michael Hawes said:
Most 80 conductor cables are Cable Select, both drives should be set to
the CS setting with the boot drive on the end connector.
Nonsense.


Mike.
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