My Maxtor and Seagate hate each other...

  • Thread starter Thread starter matthewshepherd
  • Start date Start date
M

matthewshepherd

So for the longest time, I've had this weird thing going on with my
hard drives.

The first drive that came with my computer was a Seagate Barracuda
7200.7. It's been great.

About six months ago, I picked up another hard drive, a Maxtor
Diamondmax 16.

The two drives hate each other.

Seriously. If the Barracuda is on Master and the Maxtor on Slave, I get
an NTFS (or something, I should have written it down) not found error
immediately upon turning the computer on. I don't even get as far as
the BIOS prompts.

If I put them both on Cable Select, the same thing happens. I finally
wound up slaving the Maxtor off my DVD-RW, and that sort of worked.
Well, it flat-out worked. I kept an old 20GB hard drive and slaved it
off the Seagate. That worked too.

But now with a computer running off a rowing machine downstairs, I
wanted that old 20G drive (Western Digital, just to make sure I'm
hitting all the bases) down there to stick MP3s on. So it's no longer
slaved off the original Seagate drive.

And I wanted to use that free IDE spot to run a DVD-ROM I have but am
not using.

Unfortunately, the IDE cable that goes to my DVD-RW is the only one
that could also reach the DVD-ROM, but it is needed to slave the
Maxtor.

Or rather it was. Now that there's no slave on the Seagate, the Maxtor
can't be used ANYWHERE on either IDE cable or the system won't get past
the first stages of startup.

The computer is working right now because I've unplugged the Maxtor
drive entirely. To make things slightly more annoying, since the
Maxtor's Slave jumper setting is no jumper, I've managed to lose the
freakin' jumper pin at some point along the way.

I can't figure out why the Maxtor and Seagate won't get along. Does
anybody in the forum have any ideas on how to resolve this?
 
So for the longest time, I've had this weird thing going on with my
hard drives.

The first drive that came with my computer was a Seagate Barracuda
7200.7. It's been great.

About six months ago, I picked up another hard drive, a Maxtor
Diamondmax 16.

The two drives hate each other.

Seriously. If the Barracuda is on Master and the Maxtor on Slave, I get
an NTFS (or something, I should have written it down) not found error
immediately upon turning the computer on. I don't even get as far as
the BIOS prompts.

If I put them both on Cable Select, the same thing happens. I finally
wound up slaving the Maxtor off my DVD-RW, and that sort of worked.
Well, it flat-out worked. I kept an old 20GB hard drive and slaved it
off the Seagate. That worked too.

But now with a computer running off a rowing machine downstairs, I
wanted that old 20G drive (Western Digital, just to make sure I'm
hitting all the bases) down there to stick MP3s on. So it's no longer
slaved off the original Seagate drive.

And I wanted to use that free IDE spot to run a DVD-ROM I have but am
not using.

Unfortunately, the IDE cable that goes to my DVD-RW is the only one
that could also reach the DVD-ROM, but it is needed to slave the
Maxtor.

Or rather it was. Now that there's no slave on the Seagate, the Maxtor
can't be used ANYWHERE on either IDE cable or the system won't get past
the first stages of startup.

The computer is working right now because I've unplugged the Maxtor
drive entirely. To make things slightly more annoying, since the
Maxtor's Slave jumper setting is no jumper, I've managed to lose the
freakin' jumper pin at some point along the way.

I can't figure out why the Maxtor and Seagate won't get along. Does
anybody in the forum have any ideas on how to resolve this?
Click to expand...

I'd concentrate on working out why the maxtor cant be used
at all, and check that that's true with it as the only drive in the
system, and if that's still true, try a new ribbon cable.

It could just be a flakey drive and its got worse than it once was when
it would work with the DVDRW or that cable has gone bad with the
changes and you yanking on the ribbon itself to get it off the drives.
 
So for the longest time, I've had this weird thing going on with my
hard drives.

The first drive that came with my computer was a Seagate Barracuda
7200.7. It's been great.

About six months ago, I picked up another hard drive, a Maxtor
Diamondmax 16.

The two drives hate each other.

Seriously. If the Barracuda is on Master and the Maxtor on Slave, I get
an NTFS (or something, I should have written it down) not found error
immediately upon turning the computer on. I don't even get as far as
the BIOS prompts.
Click to expand...

"BIOS prompts"?
If I put them both on Cable Select, the same thing happens. I finally
wound up slaving the Maxtor off my DVD-RW
Click to expand...

Where it belongs as the two HDs are best on separate cables.
, and that sort of worked.
Well, it flat-out worked. I kept an old 20GB hard drive and slaved it
off the Seagate. That worked too.

But now with a computer running off a rowing machine downstairs, I
wanted that old 20G drive (Western Digital, just to make sure I'm
hitting all the bases) down there to stick MP3s on. So it's no longer
slaved off the original Seagate drive.

And I wanted to use that free IDE spot to run a DVD-ROM I have but am
not using.

Unfortunately, the IDE cable that goes to my DVD-RW is the only one
that could also reach the DVD-ROM, but it is needed to slave the
Maxtor.

Or rather it was. Now that there's no slave on the Seagate, the Maxtor
can't be used ANYWHERE on either IDE cable or the system won't get past
the first stages of startup.
Click to expand...

Could one re-read your symptom set to be that the Maxtor doesn't work well
anywhere?
The computer is working right now because I've unplugged the Maxtor
drive entirely. To make things slightly more annoying, since the
Maxtor's Slave jumper setting is no jumper, I've managed to lose the
freakin' jumper pin at some point along the way.
Click to expand...

Always leave a jumper on the target gadget. Plug it off to the side on only
one pin if a no connection configuration is needed.
I can't figure out why the Maxtor and Seagate won't get along. Does
anybody in the forum have any ideas on how to resolve this?
Click to expand...

So the Seagate was at the far end of the cable jumpered as master and the
Maxtor on the middle connector jumpered as slave OR the same cabling but
both jumpered as cable select? Neither worked? Does the Maxtor work at
least thru boot and BIOS init if it's the only ATA/EIDE gadget on the system
and attached at the far end of the cable jumpered as master/[single] or as
cable select?
 
Back
Top