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Hupjack
So I bought a fancy little USB 2.0 + Firewire case in which to put one of my
two 2.5" drives I've got lying around.
I wanted to format one of the drives and do a surface scan. Since this
drive was given to me by somebody who thought it was dead, I wanted to
verify that it was, in fact, all good.
I also have one of those 44 to 40 pin IDE adapters
http://www.cablesonline.net/25hdmounkitw.html
This time it was just as easy to use that IDE adapter than to use my
external case.. Plus I don't have any USB 2.0 ports, so I would have been
formatting a 12GB drive pretty slowly over USB 1.1. Would the formatting
end up identical whether done with the drive connected over USB or directly
through the IDE adapter?
After connecting up the laptop drive to an older Compaq deskpro with the IDE
adapter, not only did the computer not boot, but after disconnecting the
adapter and rebooting the Compaq, I now get "1782 disk controller failure".
I'm assuming I just killed the IDE controller on the Compaq system board,
the other possibility being that I toasted the SCSI adapter through which
the primary HD is connected in that computer. I get the error regardless of
whether there is something connected to the IDE bus or not. I connected
that drive and adapter with pin one properly oriented, but I get the feeling
the silk screening I'm following is just plain wrong. Or I'm plain dumb.
Is there any way of resurrecting this board with the "1782 disk controller
failure"? Is this board doomed even though my HD is connected through the
SCSI adapter?
I'm rather hesitant to try connecting this disk and adapter up directly to
any more IDE chains. Can anybody direct me so I don't fry anything this
time?
The drive is still good. At least My XP machine detects it and mounts it
beautifully when it's in the external case plugged into the USB 1.1 port.
One thing I noticed, which I didn't like, is that after stopping the HD for
safe removal in XP, it doesn't spin down the drive. When I plugged the
drive via firewire into our Apple G4, when you unmout the drive (which I
assume is the same idea as "safe removal" in XP) it actually spun down the
drive. In that case disconnecting the USB cable just kills the cases power
LED rather than spinning down the drive.
Advice and wisdom much appreciated
-Ethan
two 2.5" drives I've got lying around.
I wanted to format one of the drives and do a surface scan. Since this
drive was given to me by somebody who thought it was dead, I wanted to
verify that it was, in fact, all good.
I also have one of those 44 to 40 pin IDE adapters
http://www.cablesonline.net/25hdmounkitw.html
This time it was just as easy to use that IDE adapter than to use my
external case.. Plus I don't have any USB 2.0 ports, so I would have been
formatting a 12GB drive pretty slowly over USB 1.1. Would the formatting
end up identical whether done with the drive connected over USB or directly
through the IDE adapter?
After connecting up the laptop drive to an older Compaq deskpro with the IDE
adapter, not only did the computer not boot, but after disconnecting the
adapter and rebooting the Compaq, I now get "1782 disk controller failure".
I'm assuming I just killed the IDE controller on the Compaq system board,
the other possibility being that I toasted the SCSI adapter through which
the primary HD is connected in that computer. I get the error regardless of
whether there is something connected to the IDE bus or not. I connected
that drive and adapter with pin one properly oriented, but I get the feeling
the silk screening I'm following is just plain wrong. Or I'm plain dumb.
Is there any way of resurrecting this board with the "1782 disk controller
failure"? Is this board doomed even though my HD is connected through the
SCSI adapter?
I'm rather hesitant to try connecting this disk and adapter up directly to
any more IDE chains. Can anybody direct me so I don't fry anything this
time?
The drive is still good. At least My XP machine detects it and mounts it
beautifully when it's in the external case plugged into the USB 1.1 port.
One thing I noticed, which I didn't like, is that after stopping the HD for
safe removal in XP, it doesn't spin down the drive. When I plugged the
drive via firewire into our Apple G4, when you unmout the drive (which I
assume is the same idea as "safe removal" in XP) it actually spun down the
drive. In that case disconnecting the USB cable just kills the cases power
LED rather than spinning down the drive.
Advice and wisdom much appreciated
-Ethan