can't detect secondary drive

PCG342 · 06-03-2007, 06:06 PM

Okay, I've got a Seagate Barracuda st340014a 40 Gig HDD and a Western Digital Caviar HDD... Seagate is [at the moment, at least...] the primary drive. Now, for some reason, I cannot get the WD drive running in either BIOS or Windows. Both are set to Cable Select. Same cable, Seagate in Master position, WD in Slave. All the cables are connected properly -- I already checked.

**Lead3** · 06-03-2007, 06:14 PM

Instead of cable select try setting one to master the other to slave. CS sometimes gives trouble.

PCG342 · 06-03-2007, 07:02 PM

mm. Worth a shot. You never know... I DO have a Maxtor that doesn't even have a pinout diagram...

**koala** · 06-14-2007, 04:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dan10107

how do you set an hardrive to slave?

Move the small plastic jumper on the back of the drive from the 'master' pins to the 'slave' pins and attach the slave drive to the middle connector of the same IDE cable as the master.

06-03-2007, 06:06 PM	#1 (permalink)
PCG342 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 15 OS: Windows XP	can't detect secondary drive Okay, I've got a Seagate Barracuda st340014a 40 Gig HDD and a Western Digital Caviar HDD... Seagate is [at the moment, at least...] the primary drive. Now, for some reason, I cannot get the WD drive running in either BIOS or Windows. Both are set to Cable Select. Same cable, Seagate in Master position, WD in Slave. All the cables are connected properly -- I already checked.

06-03-2007, 06:14 PM	#2 (permalink)
Lead3 Mentor Hardware Team Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Florida, USA Posts: 1,377 OS: 98SE,2000,XP SP3,VISTA SP2 x64 & x86, Windows 7 x64 & x86 My System	Re: can't detect secondary drive Instead of cable select try setting one to master the other to slave. CS sometimes gives trouble. __________________

06-03-2007, 07:02 PM	#3 (permalink)
PCG342 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 15 OS: Windows XP	Re: can't detect secondary drive mm. Worth a shot. You never know... I DO have a Maxtor that doesn't even have a pinout diagram...