Maxtor drive wiped out 2 systems?

[sadistic]

I recently purchased a EIDE 61.4GB maxtor drive and after several attempts to get it to work in my secondary system(see below for specs) I removed the drive to install it into my primary system(see below for specs)After installing the drive as secondary master and booting, my video display on post was corrupt and blinking. I thought I may have bumped the seating of the card when installing the drive so i reseated my agp video card with the same results. Next I removed the drive thinking it was possibly conflicting with something else. I rebooted the machine same response. After all of the video problems, I had the agp card tested in a third machine, which had the same results. Testing the primary machine with a pci video card it posted ok but would not boot past pnp init. Going back to the secondary machine, on bootup the system would not reconize the ide burner that was on the secondary chain. Rebooting a few times the drive showed up when booting, the machine either does not boot, or locks up after a short amount of time. The machine will not load windows, but will boot linux and reports errors while probing the ide bus.

hda: Maxtor 87000D8, ATA DISK drive
hdb: probing with STATUS(0x00) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x50)
hdb: probing with STATUS(0x00) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x50)
hdd: IDE-CD ReWritable-2x2x6, ATAPI CDROM drive
There is no drive for hdb to show up.

I havent had any issues with maxtor drives in the past, but after this I dont think i want another one. I now have 2 motherboards and a geforce video card to replace and possibly more in the primary machine that has yet been fully tested.

Has anyone else had this sort of problem or heard of this?

Thanks for advance for any information.



The maxtor drive was install as secondary slave.

Primary Machine:
Asus p5a K6-2-550 128mb ram
15GB Western Digital ( Primary master )
40x memorex cdrom ( Secondary master )
Guillemot Prophet Geforce agp
Sounblaster32 pci
3com 3c509 pci


Secondary:
FIC PA-2013 v2.0 K6-2-550 64mb ram + latest bios update
7GB maxtor Hd (primary master)
IDE burner ( Secondary master)
S3 Virge 4mb + VooDoo2 8mb
Soundblaster16 ISA
3com 3c509 pci

 

[Ulysses]

You should definitely go to Maxtor's Tech Support and see if they can help you. I use W/Digital and I noticed they have a Tech Support forum that looks good.

http://www.maxtor.com/Maxtorhome.htm

 

[Slikkster]

I wouldn't be setting up a hard drive as a slave to a CDROM drive or a CDRW drive. I would setup the two hard drives on one IDE controller as master/slave, and the two CDROM devices on the other IDE controller.

One thing you can try on the less important system is to go into the registry (Regedit), then HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum and delete the Enum section. This will force Windows to reinitialize all your hardware, and may help by deleting inaccurate entries. Back up the registry first, or course.

 

[IsOs]

I think there are some known problems in mixing UDMA66 drive with non UDMA 66 drive on the same channel. Call Maxtor for support.