What's up with Hard drive?

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macglade

Just added a 2nd drive. It is a "slave" to the older primary drive.

Since I added it, the light (the ones that flicker to show activity) on
the CPU is alway illuminated. Only thing is, it does not sound like it
is working (no grinding, humming) and the windows task manager shows CPU
usage hovering around 2% and 8% with no applications running (seems to
low for a drive that is processing)

Any ideas? Just some anomaly to adding the second drive? Did I screw
up the installation?

Thanks in advance

macglade
 
the flickering light is your C drive activity.

did you set its jumper to slave?

did you put the slave on the ribbons middle connector?
 
Henry said:
the flickering light is your C drive activity.

did you set its jumper to slave?

did you put the slave on the ribbons middle connector?
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The flickering light is for ANY drive/partition, not just the C drive.

macglade, does the drive operate as normal?
 
GFree said:
The flickering light is for ANY drive/partition, not just the C drive.

macglade, does the drive operate as normal?
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First, the machine is a dell which employs "Cable Select" which I take
to mean it makes the slave the drive on the middle connector and the
primary the other (non-motherboard) end. In any case, the jumpers on the
middle connector are set to slave

Normal? Well, my perception (right or wrong)is that it is slower.
Programs take a bit longer to open it seems, etc. Is it slower? Not sure

But i know what a drive sounds like when it is spinning (or whatever
they do) and since I still have the case cover off (and am in a better
postion to hear it) I'd hear it working all the time. And it is not.
 
1. cable should be 80 wire one
2. both drive shoud be cable selected.
3. master should be on the end of the cable

boba vankufer
 
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