Slave HD Not Working

[tshall]

Due to some electrical problems I was recently forced to replace the mb in our main computer. I went ahead and replaced the hd also, but it wasn't damaged. I have an extra computer that has a 7DXC mb with an hp writer, cd rom, and hd running ME. My wife uses this computer for email and when my son is home from college he uses it a little. I placed the hd from the other computer in this one and it works fine. I tried to slave the old hd that was in this computer just so we could have an additional hd for my son to download music on. I set the main hd up as the master and the other as slave. I've changed the jumpers a number of times too including cs on both, but whenever I hook up the second hd to the cable I lose both. It won't detect either hd. I've slaved hd's before but never had a problem. Changed the cable, but doesn't solve the problem. Anything in the bios I'm missing? TIA.

[Cricket]

What brand hard drives are you working with?

What kind of IDE cable are you using...40 wire or 80 wire?

:) Cricket

[tshall]

Thanks Cricket. The 40 g is the master and it's a Samsung SV4084H, PM100-12. The slave is a Fujitsu 10g . When booting up I see an annotation that says LBA, ATA33, but not certain what that actually means. The cable is 40 wire.

[Cricket]

Some hard drives don't play nicely with others...try putting the two hard drives as masters on separate IDE channels and see if they are both recognized. Install your optical drives as slaves.

:) Cricket

[tshall]

Okay, that didn't work either. It boots then where is gets to the "Detecting IDE Drives" just hangs and won't do anything. What do you think?

[Cricket]

Have you tried the old hard drive by itself (without the new HDD installed)?

Are you going into BIOS to make sure the HDD's are detected properly? Does the BIOS list the HDD's correctly?

It's possible the old hard drive has bit the dust.

:) Cricket

[Confused]

I've got a old Seagate that won't play nice with a Quantum or IBM but works fine on a channel by itself. And like you I tried Master, Slave, CS. Just won't play nice with others. So I put the IBM and Quantum on same channel and Seagate on channel by itself.
Chas

[tshall]

Just tried the old hd by itself and it won't boot as the master now either. Was working fine before. Oh well, guess it's not a big deal just thought it would be handy. Maybe it took a hit when the other one got hit. Thanks for all your help.

[mike breck]

Try setting it Slave, all by itself on the cable, and see what happens.

[tshall]

Sorry Mike been gone for a couple of days. I think I may have tried that already but I'm not positive. I've got it all put back together now, but could certainly try it. Can I ask why you suggest trying that? TIA.

[mike breck]

Cause someone brought me a Fujitsu HD that was apparently not working as Master or using Cable Select. I jumpered it to Slave and it booted straight up and I was able to get the data off it.

So if you can get it working as a Slave on a different channel from the Master HD, that would serve your purposes.

Worth a try, anyway.