Computer not detecting hd properly

Soulo

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I am building a new computer and everything seems to work fine except for my WD 60gb hd. The bios is not reading it properly. It is trying to read it as "WDC WD1200BB." The correct reading should be "WDC WD600BB." And also, that it would take a very long time to boot-up because it's trying to detect the harddrive and eventually it'll get an error saying "HDD Error"

I have tested this computer with a different hard drive and it works fine. I've also tried to hook the 60gb hd to another computer, but shows the same symptom.

Dunno if this will help, but here are the specs of the computer:

MSI KT4V-L
Athlon XP 1800+
TnT2 M64 32mb
Lite-On CDRW
PC2100 768mb

and of course, the WD 60GB hd.

Anyone have any idea why its doing this? And if not would it be possible to RMA this?
 

KGB

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May 11, 2000
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Check and verify the correct jumper settings for your WD HD.
There is a "Master" setting as well as a "Master w/ Slave".
This is a common problem with WD.
 

Soulo

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I set it to cable select and it should have detected it automatically, but guess not. I RMA'ed the HD and WD is sending a new one soon.