Hey everyone,
Here is the scoop on the problem I encountered tonight during a scheduled swap of a drive.
System: Compaq EVO 6000
Memory: 2gb
SCSI Drives: (3) 18.3gb 10000rpm SCSI (Raid 5)
SATA Drives: (2) Seagate 80gb 7200rpm (Raid 1)
EIDE Drive: 16x dvdrom/24x cdrw (Sony)
I planned on swapping out the the dvdrom drive tonight for a NEC-2510A DVD-/+RW drive I recently purchased from newegg. Well, I pulled the case off and the dvdrom drive was set to "cable-select". I figured, well why steer away from what was previously configured/working. I set the NEC to "cable-select" and put it in the system. I removed the dvdrom drive, thus it was basically a drive swap.
Booted up the system and the bios noticed the changes and asked if I accepted, I did and the system continued to boot. The boot process took a little longer than usual and once I finally logged into the domain, upon attempting to open "my computer" the system just displaying the magnifying glass and goes back and forth... It won't see any of the drives within "my computer".
However, if I go to start > run and type in any drive letter that is actually being mapped or a local drive, then it pulls up the drive contents without any problem. All the network connections seem to work fine.
I tried the following with no luck on resolving the problem.
1. changed jumper to master
2. changed jumper to slave
3. disconnected ide cable (booted fine, browsed "my computer" quickly and without problem)
4. swapped dvdrom drive back into system (having same problem that dvd-/+rw drive had)
5. changed jumper from cable select to slave
6. changed jumper to master
7. disconnected cable and told myself I'd do a little research and try to figure out the problem later.
Any ideas?
When the ide cable is completely pulled from the drive everything is fine. Am I missing something here? The drive is on the secondary controller on the motherboard.
The SCSI and SATA controllers are in PCI slots.
Any suggestions? The bios sees both drives fine..
Here is the scoop on the problem I encountered tonight during a scheduled swap of a drive.
System: Compaq EVO 6000
Memory: 2gb
SCSI Drives: (3) 18.3gb 10000rpm SCSI (Raid 5)
SATA Drives: (2) Seagate 80gb 7200rpm (Raid 1)
EIDE Drive: 16x dvdrom/24x cdrw (Sony)
I planned on swapping out the the dvdrom drive tonight for a NEC-2510A DVD-/+RW drive I recently purchased from newegg. Well, I pulled the case off and the dvdrom drive was set to "cable-select". I figured, well why steer away from what was previously configured/working. I set the NEC to "cable-select" and put it in the system. I removed the dvdrom drive, thus it was basically a drive swap.
Booted up the system and the bios noticed the changes and asked if I accepted, I did and the system continued to boot. The boot process took a little longer than usual and once I finally logged into the domain, upon attempting to open "my computer" the system just displaying the magnifying glass and goes back and forth... It won't see any of the drives within "my computer".
However, if I go to start > run and type in any drive letter that is actually being mapped or a local drive, then it pulls up the drive contents without any problem. All the network connections seem to work fine.
I tried the following with no luck on resolving the problem.
1. changed jumper to master
2. changed jumper to slave
3. disconnected ide cable (booted fine, browsed "my computer" quickly and without problem)
4. swapped dvdrom drive back into system (having same problem that dvd-/+rw drive had)
5. changed jumper from cable select to slave
6. changed jumper to master
7. disconnected cable and told myself I'd do a little research and try to figure out the problem later.
Any ideas?
When the ide cable is completely pulled from the drive everything is fine. Am I missing something here? The drive is on the secondary controller on the motherboard.
The SCSI and SATA controllers are in PCI slots.
Any suggestions? The bios sees both drives fine..
