Dan,

Did you try flashing the BIOS with the latest version ? Perhaps this will help.

On Wednesday, September 06, 2000 3:12 PM, Mullings, Daniel [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote:
> I have a Celeron 366mhz with a 540mb primary and a 1gb secondary.
> There's a zip drive as the slave on the primary and a cdrom slave on the
> secondary.
> Everything was working fine, all IDE components were being auto detected on
> bootup.
>
> Well, the 540 wasn't big enough with Win98 installed, so I put in an 840mb
> as a slave on the primary IDE channel and xcopied all the files from one to
> the other in Dos.  I'm sure you can guess what happened, no long file names!
> I found a program called xxcopy that didn't mess with the LFN's, deleted the
> files on the 840 and reran the copy.  Moved the 840 to the primary master,
> rebooted and everything was fine.
> Now a friend of mine gave me a 2gb drive, so I figured I could run the
> entire process again, no sweat.
>
> The bios had problems detecting this 2gb drive.  I hooked it up like the 840
> previously as the primary slave, so that I could copy all the files.  After
> a few reboots, the drive was detected.  I ran the copy, swapped the drives
> around, so that the 2gb was on the primary master and rebooted.  It booted
> ok, but no LFN's!  I swapped the drives back, but the bios seems to have
> stopped detecting the drives.  So I went in and set it to user, surfed to
> Quantum's website, jotted down the heads, cycls, etc and entered that info.
> Still nothing!  I cleared the Bios using the jumper, and still it won't
> detect any hard drive.  I've unhooked all the drives and just used either
> the 840 or the 2gb to try to boot from and nothing.  The bios just will not
> see these drives.
>
> What else can I try?
>
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> Daniel Mullings
> MTSC - Advisory Systems Engineer
> Verizon Data Services
> Irving, Texas
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