Drives Not Seen By Computer

[Fairuza]

Thanks, Hefemeister. What you said has cleared up some confusion.

Okay, I have the smaller of the two old IDE drive working now. Now to try the other one. Ideally, I want them both in there, running as a slaves, alongside the SATA.

 

[Hefemeister]

Just set the jumpers I as stated and it should work just fine. Again being master on a IDE cable does not make it the Master boot drive. That is set via bios and your sata is already set as the boot drive.

 

[Fairuza]

Cool! Thank you.

 

[Muffin Man]

are the two ide hdd's (slaves) from different manufacturers, or different models?

im pretty sure that if they are from different manufacturers, their jumper settings for master/slave will be different. but im not completely sure if the jumper settings will different if they are from the same manuf. but different models.

just giving a heads up. i would say just check their manuals to make sure.

 

[Fairuza]

are the two ide hdd's (slaves) from different manufacturers, or different models?

Funnily enough, they're both Maxtor but they are of rather different generations. The SATA is a completely different animal to the IDE version.

Good news is, I have the 40gb Maxtor online now. I've even installed Win-XP and tried it as a back-up boot drive. It's rubbish at handling XP, obviously, because it's so small and slow. But at least now I've got the hang of managing them through the BIOS settings.

I can have them both jumpered as 'master' but then I can now control their order in boot sequence through the BIOS.