re: Slave not seen in My Computer
Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 7:09 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve B
(1909 messages posted)
High speed ATA 100 disks need the fine pitched 80 conductor ribbon cables.
I wonder if "Disk Management" can see it. If it does, and doesn't understand the
format, you could reformat it, and loose the data.
On Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 6:45 am, suruli wrote:
>Just got an HP 2.2g (in pieces). It had a 60g drive with xp home on it. We took
my
>60g out of my AMD system, and my 40g slave and tried to hook them up in the new
system.
>For several hours we had trouble getting it to recognize the drives. It would see
>the two CD roms, but no HDs. Changed ribbons etc, and finally changed to the original
>master. Got the master and slave to recognize, but not the CD roms then. One pair
>or the other, not both. After a few more hours (no idea how) we finally got all
four
>drives to recognize.
>You'd think we'd leave well ebough alone, but nooooo. The board was going into a
>different box, so out everything came again.
>Now for the last three days, we've tried to get windows to see the slave. It will
>recognize the master, slave and cd-roms in bios and in the device manager, but the
>slave will NOT show in my computer.
>We've tried several different drives both as masters and slaves, changed ribbons,
>changed settings to cls, uninstalled and reinstalled the slave and still, it doesn't
>show in My Computer, but it does in bios and in the device manager.
>For quite some time we did have trouble auto detecting the drives in bios as well,
>but for the moment they are auto detecting.
>Short of declaring this board posessed, is there something we're missing?
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