On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 07:41, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Dear all, > I'm almost frustated. > I tried to add a primary slave hdd into the system, but it didn't > work. The BIOS failed to recognise the drive. > Both primary master and slave are maxtors. > > I've double checked the jumper setting and I'm sure I did it right. > http://maxtor.com/en/documentation/installation_guides/ata_installation_guide.pdf > > The errors were: > 1. If I set hdd #1 as master and hdd #2 as slave, BIOS only recognise > hdd #1 > 2. If I set both hdd as cable select then only hdd #2 is recognised. > 3. If I set hdd #1 as slave and hdd #2 as slave/cable select ( I know > this is wrong), then only hdd #1 is recognised (as slave). > > This maxtor jumper settings really pissed me off! I don't have this > kind of trouble if I use maxtor and seagate. Is maxtor and maxtor > really can't be used together? > > Any opinion? Any experiences? > Pls help me. Thanks. > Fajar. >
Fajar, I've had this trouble and the problem turned out to be that one of the jumper blocks wasn't making good contact with the pins. Verify that there is actually some _metal_ in the plastic jumper, or better yet, get some new jumper blocks. -- N. B. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department, University of New Orleans
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