On 19/1/06 14:55, Jason Mayfield-Lewis wrote:
This is a line I practice my recital of every day (I'm not really a tech
support guy, but I seem to end up doing a lot) -
WD Hard drives work slightly differently from those from other
manufacturers in that they have two different master jumper settings,
one for master w/slave and one for master as a single drive. Most IDE
controllers don't care, but some are very picky and hang the drive
initialization indefinitely waiting for the second drive (when there
isn't one) on the chain if this is set incorrectly. These seems to
happen a lot with add-on PCI cards and external firewire/usb bays. A
quick look at this PDF file should help you establish whether you have
it set correctly:
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/library/eide/2579-001037.pdf
To be fair to the people who complain about their drives not working, I
don't think WD make this clear enough themselves, but that's certainly
not a reason to suggest they might be bad drives.
Been there...seen it...done it...made no difference ;-)
The xlr8yourmac site keeps repeating this point as well, about WD having
two different master settings. And it is printed on the drives
themselves. But I've tried every combination with the Sonnet card and my
WD drives - one drive, both drives, one drive + Seagate. And I've tried
both master settings just for the heck of it. Spent one long Friday
night on it and gave up. Both WDs are now on the motherboard IDE.
Neil
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