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Question: Dell PowerEdge Server 1400

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djkball

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I know this machine comes with a scsi drives for hard disk . But it also comes with edie for the cdrom . Can you hook another hard drive that is ide onto this machine once you have disconnected the cdrom ?
 
thats what i had thought also but when i plug the ide drive in the machine wont detect it . Maybe i would have to try again
 
OK sounds like you need to configure your hard drive correctly if you know the drive is ok , make sure you have all your cables connected right and make sure the jumper on the hard drive is set to master , there sould be a little diagram on the top of the hard drive itself displaying the jumper positions.
 
Yea that was done . But the thing iam runnning into is that the bios on the server doesnt reconize ide hard drives just only has an option for ide cdrom enable or disable .

It runs off a 10k 9 gig scsi drive
 
Ask for a BIOS update from Dell, they configured the server to use SCSI (never use IDE and server in the same sentence) So what is happening, is the BIOS is not able to detect hard drives that are not connected to the SCSI controller. Besides even if you could attach the hard drive and have it work off the ide channel, chances are dell didn't spend the extra money to have an ata 100 controller on board when all the intended it for was for a CD-ROM, it is probably ATA 33 at best. I would say forget about it and go with the SCSI (depending on what you need it for, SCSI could be essential.)
 
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