BIOS misidentifies new drive

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stevec wrote:

> Hi - I installed a new Seagate 80 gb ATA drive on primary ide
> controller, formatted it and installed Win2k. It boots and behaves
> fine as long as it's the only HD installed. However, adding a Maxtor
> 80 gb as slave on the primary ide causes the system to return garbled
> gibberish (rather than the seagate id)at master and 'none' at slave.
> It id's the two CD-R drives on the secondary ide appropriately. Of
> course the system won't boot from the HD.
> Drive id is set at 'auto' in the bios setup and works fine when two
> maxtor drives are installed on primary ide, or when the seagate is
> alone.
> I've double (triple) checked the jumpers, and flashed the bios, still
> no joy.
> Any pointers with this frustration will be warmly appreciated. Thanks
> Steve

FWIW, I have seen something similar to that happen with a bad cable.

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"stevec" <steve_crogan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:9d1c4973.0406131120.7477a53f@posting.google.com...
> Hi - I installed a new Seagate 80 gb ATA drive on primary ide
> controller, formatted it and installed Win2k. It boots and behaves
> fine as long as it's the only HD installed. However, adding a Maxtor
> 80 gb as slave on the primary ide causes the system to return garbled
> gibberish (rather than the seagate id)at master and 'none' at slave.
> It id's the two CD-R drives on the secondary ide appropriately. Of
> course the system won't boot from the HD.
> Drive id is set at 'auto' in the bios setup and works fine when two
> maxtor drives are installed on primary ide, or when the seagate is
> alone.
> I've double (triple) checked the jumpers, and flashed the bios, still
> no joy.
> Any pointers with this frustration will be warmly appreciated. Thanks
> Steve

Most 80 conductor cables are Cable Select, both drives should be set to
the CS setting with the boot drive on the end connector.

Mike.


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"Michael Hawes" <michael.hawes1remove@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message news:40ccbb21$1_2@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com
> "stevec" <steve_crogan@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:9d1c4973.0406131120.7477a53f@posting.google.com...
> > Hi - I installed a new Seagate 80 gb ATA drive on primary ide
> > controller, formatted it and installed Win2k. It boots and behaves
> > fine as long as it's the only HD installed. However, adding a Maxtor
> > 80 gb as slave on the primary ide causes the system to return garbled
> > gibberish (rather than the seagate id)at master and 'none' at slave.
> > It id's the two CD-R drives on the secondary ide appropriately.
> > Of course the system won't boot from the HD.
> > Drive id is set at 'auto' in the bios setup and works fine when two
> > maxtor drives are installed on primary ide, or when the seagate is alone.
> > I've double (triple) checked the jumpers, and flashed the bios, still no joy.
> > Any pointers with this frustration will be warmly appreciated.
> > Thanks Steve
>
> Most 80 conductor cables are Cable Select, both drives should be set to
> the CS setting with the boot drive on the end connector.

Nonsense.

>
> Mike.
>
>