I ran into a problem last week I couldn't figure out:
I currently have two PATA drives on IDE0 and a DVD burner on IDE1. I have an old 7200rpm, 60GB PATA I'd like to use for storage. So I put that 3rd hard drive in the case, set it to slave, ensured the DVD burner was set to master (w/ slave present), and plugged in the ATA33 ribbon cable (not a big deal if the drive is limited to ATA33) and power.
When I turned on the computer, at POST, there was 0 of the 4 IDE devices detected. I kept turning it off, reconnecting and making sure all jumpers were set right and that no plugs were loose, and trying again. It seemed weird because even if that 3rd 60gb drive I put in was hooked up wrong or anything, at the very most, anything on IDE1 would fail to detect but my two hard drives on IDE0 would detect normally.
After 15 minutes of trying all that, I unplugged the 60gb I just put in. I STILL had zero IDE devices detected at POST. Starting to worry now, I pulled out that 60gb hard drive, made sure the my original 3 devices were connected OK, and turned it on. Back to normal and everything detected fine.
So what would make that hard drive cause every other IDE device to not work? The only thing I could think of is that it was shorting to the case or something. Since I have almost no room for more drives in the internal 3.5 spaces, I placed that 60gb drive in the external 3.5 slot where the floppy drive would go. It still fit fine and screwed in like the internal slots. Plus I am 99% sure that when I had an old 27.3gb as a third hard drive for a while, it was placed in the external 3.5 slot like I put the 60gb in.
Any ideas?
I currently have two PATA drives on IDE0 and a DVD burner on IDE1. I have an old 7200rpm, 60GB PATA I'd like to use for storage. So I put that 3rd hard drive in the case, set it to slave, ensured the DVD burner was set to master (w/ slave present), and plugged in the ATA33 ribbon cable (not a big deal if the drive is limited to ATA33) and power.
When I turned on the computer, at POST, there was 0 of the 4 IDE devices detected. I kept turning it off, reconnecting and making sure all jumpers were set right and that no plugs were loose, and trying again. It seemed weird because even if that 3rd 60gb drive I put in was hooked up wrong or anything, at the very most, anything on IDE1 would fail to detect but my two hard drives on IDE0 would detect normally.
After 15 minutes of trying all that, I unplugged the 60gb I just put in. I STILL had zero IDE devices detected at POST. Starting to worry now, I pulled out that 60gb hard drive, made sure the my original 3 devices were connected OK, and turned it on. Back to normal and everything detected fine.
So what would make that hard drive cause every other IDE device to not work? The only thing I could think of is that it was shorting to the case or something. Since I have almost no room for more drives in the internal 3.5 spaces, I placed that 60gb drive in the external 3.5 slot where the floppy drive would go. It still fit fine and screwed in like the internal slots. Plus I am 99% sure that when I had an old 27.3gb as a third hard drive for a while, it was placed in the external 3.5 slot like I put the 60gb in.
Any ideas?
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