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Thanks for all your input. I wanted to use the drive as a storage for
pictures and mp3 files. So I configured the hard drive as slave. I have
done everything I could, I am out of ideas I just bought the drive from
Newegg.com so I don't know what I could do as far as returing the product.
Any help would be great thanks again.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Wright" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Maxtor hard drive
> At 09:53 PM 10/4/2002, Mike McNeil wrote:
> >Hello, I was wondering if anybody could help me out with a Maxtor hard
> >drive? I have currently two hard drives in my desktop pc. The one is
used
> >for a master drive which is working fine. The other is used for a slave
> >drive, this is the drive that is giving me promblems. I have ran all
tests
> >on the hard drive everything comes up ok. But when I go to to boot up
the
> >computer it won't let me boot up with the slave drive attached. But when
I
> >disconnect the slave drive the computer starts up fine. If anybody could
> >help me some advice on what to do thanks Brett...
> ==============================
>
> >Check the jumper settings on the 1st Hard drive to make sure it's not set
as
> >a single master. You could also try changing the jumpers on both drives
to
> >cable select to see if that resolves the problem.
> >Cheers
> >Mike McNeil
>
> I only wish you had provided more information on the Maxtor drive.
> I have found recently a couple of fairly new 40gig Maxtor drives that
> have something wrong in that they begin to start locking up the operating
> system and over time they degrade to the point where you cannot even
> completely boot the system without a lockup. I have returned them under
> warranty, as they were definitely defective.
>
> On the issue above about "cable select," the advice is incorrect. Cable
> Select is used with a special IDE cable that 'selects' which one is the
> master, similar to how a floppy drive cable works. You use these
> special cables to plug the master connector into the master drive and
> the slave connector into the slave drive. Without this cable and setting
> your drives to Cable Select, you are in effect telling your system that
> both are in neutral... neither is a master or slave drive. This is an
old
> option that failed in that it never caught on in popular use.
>
> If in fact you have a setup issue on the drives, be sure that your boot
> drive is set to Master and your other drive is set to slave.
>
> Bob Wright
> The NoSpin Group, Inc.
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