Hard Drive Keeps Dissapearing

[Scootin159]

I have 2 Seagate 80GB HDD's on IDE 0 (master & slave). The Slave one keeps on disappearing on me though. Anyone have any ideas on what could be causing this?

Edit: Sorry about the short first description, here is a move verbose explanation of the problem.

I will be using windows right along without a problem....then it will randomly lock up (have to hit reset button).
Then when I reboot the disk will not be reconized via the BIOS.
I try rebooting again, turning power on & off, ect...nothing helps
If I boot with the HDD disconnected, and then boot again with power on everything is fine again.

Any ideas?

BTW, I tried various IDE cables as well, and am running a Iwill KK266 (Via KT133a chipset) w/ the latest BIOS. I'm also running windows XP w/ the latest VIA 4-in-1 drivers.

 

[WhoDeeny]

What OS are you using? Is the BIOS still "seeing" it? Are your jumpers correct? I

f your jumpers are corrrect and the BIOS doesn't see it I fear the worst...

 

[WhoDeeny]

Oh and one last thing: you may consider swapping out your IDE cable...

 

[Scootin159]

bump for edit.

 

[BFG10K]

Make sure you have the latest BIOS for your motherboard and check your cable and HD setup.

 

[Scootin159]

any other ideas?

 

[Paulson]

The drives aren't clicking or scratching are they?

Also, are they overheating? What speed are they and how close together are they in your case?

 

[Scootin159]

<< The drives aren't clicking or scratching are they?

Also, are they overheating? What speed are they and how close together are they in your case? >>



No clicks, no overheating (drive is cool to the touch), drives are mounted with a empty bay between them & a 80mm fan blowing over both of them (so they're cool enough).