Multiple hard drive boot problems

[iman00b]

Got a Maxtor and Seagate HD on secondary ide master and slave. With both drives on they both fail to detect, windows gets a lil strange with really long shutdown times. Once in a while they work together but after shutting down they wont work again. If i only have one of the two drives on it seems to work perfectly. Anyone know how to fix this?

 

[jkresh]

are you sure you have the jumpers properly set for both drives?

 

[RebateMonger]

Incompatibilities existed fifteen years ago, but I haven't heard of any recent issues. Maybe one of the drives is failing?

 

[bendixG15]

Originally posted by: jkresh
are you sure you have the jumpers properly set for both drives?

This gets my vote for first thing to check out .......

 

[iman00b]

the jumpers are correct for sure. i mentioned that it does work together sometimes but rarely. i have a nForce3 250GB board that should let me use Ultra DMA 6 - Ultra133 but this secondary channel is locked to only Ultra DMA 2 - Ultra33. i think my onboard IDE controller is bad.

 

[Old Hippie]

How about trying a new cable?

 

[Scarpozzi]

Are they hooked up on the same cable? If one of them is FUBARed and talking trash it could potentially cause problems.

One workaround is to get a USB enclosure and mount it as an external. That would allow you to at least get the system booted before you try to mount the second drive...