old hard drives on new motherboards?

[CanOWorms]

Do old hard drives not work with newer motherboards? I was trying 3 old hard drives with a motherboard and none of them would work. I put the hard drives in an older computer and they work! Are some motherboards incompatible with the older stuff?

 

[ku]

have u tried putting a new hard drive into the new motherboard?

 

[CanOWorms]

Whoops, looks like I left out some crucial information. Yes, I put my current computer's hard drive in and it works. It's an IBM hard drive.. ~13 gb, 7200 rpm.

That's why I'm asking if older hard drives don't work on newer mobos

 

[Budman]

Old hd's work fine,it's just some are fussy on how you jumper them. try it master & no other drive on the ide cable.

 

[CanOWorms]

Well they're all marked as master and the only thing on the ide is the hard drive.

 

[thomsbrain]

many old drives do not like having anything at all on the cable except for themselves.

 

[eplebnista]

Will it boot to a floppy with the old drives in? If so you might could enter the bios and manually set the speed of the IDE controller that the drive is on. Also make sure the drive is connected to the Primary Controller.

hth,
eplebnista

 

[Rand]

There is a 3000RPM 540MB HDD hooked up to this PC that I'm working on right now, and it is otherwise a quite new system.