Mixing ATA and SATA

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James L. Freeman

I have a new Gateway 500-series computer with an ATA RW-CDROM and a
SATA hard drive. I added a 250i Zip drive to the middle connecter of
the CDROM cable. I added an ATA/IDE hard drive to the end connector
of its own cable. Everything is set to cable-select.

When I first booted, it recognized all drives correctly. But after I
used the CDROM and Zip drives, the ATA hard drive disappeared and no
longer shows up on the ROM setup screen or list of available drives.
I cannot access it at all. I assume this is a setup problem and not a
hard drive failure.

What is the proper cable and jumper setup for this configuration?

Thanks.
 
James,
I would assume that your problem lies in using cable select for the HD. If
you do not have a cable that is designed for cable select then you could be
having problems. I would try strapping the HD for master and see if things
improve.
Tim
 
I have a new Gateway 500-series computer with an ATA RW-CDROM and a
SATA hard drive. I added a 250i Zip drive to the middle connecter of
the CDROM cable. I added an ATA/IDE hard drive to the end connector
of its own cable. Everything is set to cable-select.

When I first booted, it recognized all drives correctly. But after I
used the CDROM and Zip drives, the ATA hard drive disappeared and no
longer shows up on the ROM setup screen or list of available drives.
I cannot access it at all. I assume this is a setup problem and not a
hard drive failure.

What is the proper cable and jumper setup for this configuration?

Thanks.
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What power supply is in it?
Some Gateways had marginally insufficient capacity power
supply, if yours is 235W or less you might be pushing it...
if you have a multimeter take voltage readings.
 
kony said:
What power supply is in it?
Some Gateways had marginally insufficient capacity power
supply, if yours is 235W or less you might be pushing it...
if you have a multimeter take voltage readings.
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Cable-select doesn't seem to work most of the time. I'm not sure if
it's the MB, the OS, or the hardware combinations. Based on where you
say you have them connected the CD-RW should be set to primary and the
Zip set to slave. Your IDE hard drive should be set to primary, unless
you have a model that says you can leave it off when only one drive is
on the cable.
 
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