Does the controller recognize the drives during POST? If so, then you
may need to use FDISK to "adjust" the active partition. Did you check
the jumper settings on the drives to have one as master and the other as
slave? Consider trying the second IDE channel for the other drive.

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brad Loomis
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 7:36 AM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] Controller failure?


Hi,
I'll try to keep this short. I had a main board failure on one of my
machines. I needed the data on the hard drive so I removed it and put it
in another machine. I set it as the slave. Something went totally
haywire and I am now unable to access either drive. Both are 40GB
Seagate IDE drives. The machine I put them into is a Dell Precision 610,
dual Xeon PII 450. I have tried just a single drive but neither drive is
recgonized in the bios. I am wondering if the controller has failed. It
showed up initially, but I could not get Server 2K to install. The drive
would not format. Then the message about no primary or secondary drive.
I have tried different cables and have 5.6 and 11.9v respectivly on the
power plugs. Any way to tell if the controller is bad other than buying
and installing a new card? This machine also has SCSI on board with two
drives, disconnected at this point. Also how does one make a drive not
ACTIVE to install as a slave with NTFS?

Thanks for the help
Brad Loomis
Morro Bay, CA

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