really wierd problem

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OK
Have 2 hard drives installed, working fine.

Have put both hard drives into removable caddies and when i boot up i get
Disc read error occured. If i disable slave drive it boots up fine from the
master. So im thinking the caddy is faulty, if i swap the caddies round it
still works fine with just tha master connected, unless if i load the slave
drive back again and then again i get disc read error occuured and it wont
boot.
SO i take both hard drives out of the caddies and connect them with the IDE
cables and both are fine, boots up with master and slave attached!!

The cadies are Icy Dock ones(not cheapos) and both appear to work fine while
on their own but if i connect them both i can only boot up if i remove the
slave drive otherwise i get the disc read error occured.


any idea?

 

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"Ere" <erewego@aol.com> wrote in message
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> OK
> Have 2 hard drives installed, working fine.
>
> Have put both hard drives into removable caddies and when i boot up i get
> Disc read error occured. If i disable slave drive it boots up fine from
the
> master. So im thinking the caddy is faulty, if i swap the caddies round it
> still works fine with just tha master connected, unless if i load the
slave
> drive back again and then again i get disc read error occuured and it wont
> boot.
> SO i take both hard drives out of the caddies and connect them with the
IDE
> cables and both are fine, boots up with master and slave attached!!
>
> The cadies are Icy Dock ones(not cheapos) and both appear to work fine
while
> on their own but if i connect them both i can only boot up if i remove
the
> slave drive otherwise i get the disc read error occured.
>
>
> any idea?
>


are you using a 40 wire ribbon cable and have the drives as C/S ? just a
thought

 

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"Chris 159" <temp@cdelectrics.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "Ere" <erewego@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:Ri_tc.142$lb6.25@newsfe5-gui.server.ntli.net...
> > OK
> > Have 2 hard drives installed, working fine.
> >
> > Have put both hard drives into removable caddies and when i boot up i
get
> > Disc read error occured. If i disable slave drive it boots up fine from
> the
> > master. So im thinking the caddy is faulty, if i swap the caddies round
it
> > still works fine with just tha master connected, unless if i load the
> slave
> > drive back again and then again i get disc read error occuured and it
wont
> > boot.
> > SO i take both hard drives out of the caddies and connect them with the
> IDE
> > cables and both are fine, boots up with master and slave attached!!
> >
> > The cadies are Icy Dock ones(not cheapos) and both appear to work fine
> while
> > on their own but if i connect them both i can only boot up if i remove
> the
> > slave drive otherwise i get the disc read error occured.
> >
> >
> > any idea?
> >
>
>
> are you using a 40 wire ribbon cable and have the drives as C/S ? just a
> thought
>
>
>
hi chris
cheers forthe help, ive just sorted it, faulty IDE cable!! tried another
cable and it all worked fine first time, when i look back and think about it
it should have been obvious ide guess
cheers anyway
Si