Removable Mobile HDD Rack - Problem

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Hi Guys,
would appreciate some help with this problem. I have 3 HDD's, the first is
a W/Digital IDE HDD , which I have set to Master on IDE 1 ( Boot Drive), the
only drive on the IDE Cable, no slave. The two others are W/Digital SATA
Drives. What I wanted to do was to put the Boot IDE Drive on a removable
Rack, so that I could swap HDD's and use a different Operating systems
..
Ok, what I did was to put in a rack with the existing Boot IDE HDD in it,
left the jumper alone ( in the neutral Position W/Digital Instructions for
the JB edition), then switched the computer on and it went through the Post
OK then it would not boot from the drive, gave Disk Read Error Occurred....
I tried changing the jumper, checked the sequence in the Bios but still got
the same error.
Thanks guys I do appreciate your advice and help
Regards
Bob
 
BH2 said:
Hi Guys,
would appreciate some help with this problem. I have 3 HDD's, the first is
a W/Digital IDE HDD , which I have set to Master on IDE 1 ( Boot Drive), the
only drive on the IDE Cable, no slave. The two others are W/Digital SATA
Drives. What I wanted to do was to put the Boot IDE Drive on a removable
Rack, so that I could swap HDD's and use a different Operating systems
.
Ok, what I did was to put in a rack with the existing Boot IDE HDD in it,
left the jumper alone ( in the neutral Position W/Digital Instructions for
the JB edition), then switched the computer on and it went through the Post
OK then it would not boot from the drive, gave Disk Read Error Occurred....
I tried changing the jumper, checked the sequence in the Bios but still got
the same error.
Thanks guys I do appreciate your advice and help
Regards
Bob
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IIRC, it is the removable rack that has to be jumpered properly
for Master/Slave status and not the hard drive. The rack defines
the setting for the hard drive that is being installed in it. IOW,
the motherboard is not reading or accepting the connection from
the rack.
 
BH2 said:
would appreciate some help with this problem. I have 3 HDD's, the
first is a W/Digital IDE HDD , which I have set to Master on IDE 1 (
Boot Drive), the only drive on the IDE Cable, no slave. The two
others are W/Digital SATA Drives. What I wanted to do was to put the
Boot IDE Drive on a removable Rack, so that I could swap HDD's and
use a different Operating systems .
Click to expand...
Ok, what I did was to put in a rack with the existing Boot IDE HDD in
it, left the jumper alone ( in the neutral Position W/Digital
Instructions for the JB edition), then switched the computer on and
it went through the Post OK then it would not boot from the drive,
gave Disk Read Error Occurred.... I tried changing the jumper,
checked the sequence in the Bios but still got the same error.
Thanks guys I do appreciate your advice and help
Click to expand...

Some racks say explicitly that they wont work with WD drives because
of the terminal stupidity that WD drives have with their jumpering with
a unique jumper config when its the only drive on a ribbon cable.
 
Hi Guys,
thanks for the replies, I think I will have to contact W/Digital, as the
are no jumpers on the rack and have tried various setting on the drive,
mikght try a second drive as a slave and see what happens
Regards
Bob
 
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