Hi William, Unfortunately with both Formatting and Updating the Drivers, you do have to be able to 'see' the drive. So if this drive worked before you switched ATA cards, we need to try to narrow down why it isn't being seen now. If you can answer these Q's, it might help us a bit more to narrow the problem down: Is this a new drive you are trying to mount, one you got used or one you had working before? Does the green led on the underside of the Siig card blink when you boot up your system?
Can you tell if the hard drives are spinning up when booted? Some have LEDs that can also be helpful in troubleshooting a drive. I have sometimes found that certain slower speed cables won't work but also make certain your cable is a good one. Also, which OS are you using? Do any drives show up for you on the new ATA card? You still have the older ATA/66 card right? You can run both cards at the same time too. So if you want, (and can), you could try the drive on the older card, format it there if possible, then bring it over to the new card where hopefully it would be seen and reformat again there. Definitely try HDST as Alan suggests if you have it, but also try FWB Hard Disk Toolkit if you have access to that. You might also try SCSI probe as it can sometimes be helpful in seeing drives. I can email you the latest version if you want as it is free. Let me know with an email. You can also attempt using Norton Utilities v. 5.5 or v.6. It has a feature on the main menu 'Show Missing Disks' that sometimes can see unseen drives. Once seen by one app, you can often go into Drive Setup and do a quick format. If you get this far, I restart before doing anything more to the drive. I often go ahead and zero all data once I get a drive back, then restart again. Are you certain that your drive's Master Slave Jumper Settings are correct? What you might do is try just one drive at a time at the end of the cable. Set the drive to Master (or Single depending on the drive). If this doesn't help, shut down and try changing the settings to Cable Select, as this seems to give orders to the drive to select the proper configuration. Always shut down to make these changes and every once in a while, you should zap pram. I personally had to update the firmware on my Siig card before it would work on my system, but my symptoms were different then yours as the card prevented my system from booting, so I would not recommend this step at this juncture. But is t is something we can keep on the back burner. Good luck, Dave > Robyn: I see and hear about the formatting and then > they show up on the monitor-but no one had said how > you format a drive you can't find. > > That's the problem. Drive Setup, and I have several > versions, can't find the ATA HD. > > David: Updating the drivers. You say 'Update Driver' > is in the Drive Setup app. I open up Utilities, then > Drive Setup, and it immediately goes looking for the > drives. Where is the 'Update Driver'? Bill Smith -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
