I am having one hell of a weird time with the Shuttle SN41G2 XPC and setting up HDDs on it. Mine was purchased about two weeks ago from Newegg. My roommate has one that was purchased about three months ago from a retail store, so they are almost certainly different production runs. Both machines exhibit the EXACT same weirdnesses.
Some basic facts:
The cable that Shuttle supplies for IDE1 - HD has only a single drive connector on it.
The cable that Shuttle supplies for IDE2 - CDROM has two drive connectors on it.
The system has enough power plugs to plug into five or six drives, more if you count floppies.
Now the weirdnesses:
I tried plugging a second HD into IDE2 as the slave. The system refused to boot. It didn't matter which connectors I plugged the CDROM and HD into (the end or the middle), either way the system refused to boot. If I have just the CDROM or just the HD (switched to being a master), it boots fine. If I unplug the cable from the Shuttle motherboard, however, and plug it into my old machine (Asus P5A, K6-2/400MHz), the system recognizes both drives without trouble and can burn CDs and read the slave HD. So, it's not a setup problem. The Shuttle just seems to refuse to boot when IDE2 has two drives on it.
Tonight, I was trying to restore a Norton Ghost(TM) image to the boot partition of the drive. I pulled the Shuttle-supplied single-connector cable out and used a normal came-with-the-Maxtor-drive cable with two connectors, since I needed to load the image from the aforementioned slave drive. I had failure after failure to boot up after restoring the images. I even unplugged the slave drive, thinking that maybe that was screwing things up. I finally gave up and decided to reformat and reinstall. In doing so, I removed the two-conn cable, and reinstalled the Shuttle-supplied single-connector cable. The drive promptly booted without any problem whatsoever. It appears that the Shuttle XPC requires its very own Shuttle-supplied single-conn cable for the main HD on IDE1.
What gives?? Are these known limitations of the Shuttle XPC, or at least the SN41G2 XPC? The box can only have one HD (on IDE1) and one CDROM drive (on IDE2)?? Is there ANY way to use the machine with multiple HDs installed on the IDE buses? Or am I going to have to keep a second box around for handling Ghosting duties?
Some basic facts:
The cable that Shuttle supplies for IDE1 - HD has only a single drive connector on it.
The cable that Shuttle supplies for IDE2 - CDROM has two drive connectors on it.
The system has enough power plugs to plug into five or six drives, more if you count floppies.
Now the weirdnesses:
I tried plugging a second HD into IDE2 as the slave. The system refused to boot. It didn't matter which connectors I plugged the CDROM and HD into (the end or the middle), either way the system refused to boot. If I have just the CDROM or just the HD (switched to being a master), it boots fine. If I unplug the cable from the Shuttle motherboard, however, and plug it into my old machine (Asus P5A, K6-2/400MHz), the system recognizes both drives without trouble and can burn CDs and read the slave HD. So, it's not a setup problem. The Shuttle just seems to refuse to boot when IDE2 has two drives on it.
Tonight, I was trying to restore a Norton Ghost(TM) image to the boot partition of the drive. I pulled the Shuttle-supplied single-connector cable out and used a normal came-with-the-Maxtor-drive cable with two connectors, since I needed to load the image from the aforementioned slave drive. I had failure after failure to boot up after restoring the images. I even unplugged the slave drive, thinking that maybe that was screwing things up. I finally gave up and decided to reformat and reinstall. In doing so, I removed the two-conn cable, and reinstalled the Shuttle-supplied single-connector cable. The drive promptly booted without any problem whatsoever. It appears that the Shuttle XPC requires its very own Shuttle-supplied single-conn cable for the main HD on IDE1.
What gives?? Are these known limitations of the Shuttle XPC, or at least the SN41G2 XPC? The box can only have one HD (on IDE1) and one CDROM drive (on IDE2)?? Is there ANY way to use the machine with multiple HDs installed on the IDE buses? Or am I going to have to keep a second box around for handling Ghosting duties?
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