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Slaving hard drives -- help!!

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dbenne

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I need some help. I just bought a new computer and I'm trying to slave my old hard drive to the new hard drive. The old drive is a Quantum Fireball 6gig. The new one is a Seagate Barracuda 80gig. The problem I'm having is that when I connect the old drive, my bios recognizes the Quantum as the master and doesn't recognize the Seagate. Even when I try to do Auto recognize it has my Quantum as primary master and then says there is no primary slave installed. I thought I knew what I was doing, but it's pretty apparent that I'm clueless. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks


- Dave
 
First make sure your jumpers are positively in the correct locations!

If you are sure the drives are jumpered correctly, there may be a possibility these two drives will not play together like you wish. A month or so ago I had someone who desired that their Quantum Bigfoot be master and a WD be slave. Just wouldn't work that way properly. Had to make the WD master and Quantum the slave, which ended up being better anyway because the WD was faster.

But seriously, examine the jumpers and try a different cable first.


EDIT: just saw it was an 80GB drive... you sure your BIOS supports 80GB? Try it by itself, if it is recognized you are Ok... but if not, you need a BIOS overlay!
 
Got it!! Thanks, it was the jumper. Obviously, I didn't know what I was doing. Once I set the jumpers it worked perfect. Thanks for the hlep!!

-Dave
 
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