The motherboard is Asus P2B which is about 4 years old. The hard drive is Western Digital and about 2 years old. I have everything set to auto in BIOS, the HDD set to master. Vic ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete" <persuric@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 8:19 AM Subject: Re: Strange things with my hard drive > > Can you check your bios/cmos settings? Some bioses require cdrom drives > to be set to none and others have a cdrom selection while yet other bioses > will work whith auto or none set for the cdrom. If the hard drive is les > than (8 gig? the bioses limit? or maybe 2 or 4 gig limit?) set up the hard > drive whith the C H S values in cmos. Usually setting the P I O and the U > D M A modes to auto will work. There may be a couple of settings like L B > A (larg block addressing) or I think another one called just large mode. If > your lucky you can set this one to auto. More likely there either an on/off > or check box to check. I geus what I am really trying to say is check the > settings in bios/cmos for the hard drive you are trying to install. > Depending on what hard drive you have there may be two jumpers to set. One > for master / slave etc and another one for cylinder limitation. The > cylinder limitation for example: if you have a bios/cmos whith an 8 gig > limit and your hard drive is 10 gig, you would set both master and cylinder > limitation jumpers. Some computers wont boot unless the cylinder limit > jumper is set to occomidate the limit in bios/cmos most I have seen will > boot any way so not booting could tell you some thing. Usually no jumpers > on the cdrom meens slave. Also most cdrom and hard drives have jumpers for: > master, slave and cable select. You may have a system whith cable select, > in which case set all drives to cable select (CS). The cable select, this > setting detirmines by possission which drive is master and which one is > slave. How new are the hard drive and cdrom and how old is the motherboard? > Pete > > > Hell, listers! > > I know some of you, especially Kerry, are big hardware specialists. Hope > you > > will be able to advise something for me this time as well. > > I am putting together a new machine. Whenever I connect the hard drive to > > the IDE0 and CDROM to IDE1, both on master, I get "hard disk failed...", > but > > CDROM is found. However, if I connect hard drive to IDE1 and CDROM to > IDE0, > > both to master, then both are recognized fine. Why is this hapenning? I > > tried these combinations several times, and the same result comes out. > > Can you suggest something? > > Victor > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
