What does this mean?

[Raider29]

Primary IDE Channel no 80 conducter cable installed

 

[downhiller80]

It means you don't have an 80 channel cable connected to your Primary IDE channel.

- seb

 

[Raider29]

Do I need one?

 

[dingdongdingdong]

that also mean you ide cable is loose try put firmly and it may help ya

 

[downhiller80]

It's advisable if you have a modern hard disk & motherboard. Check the cable and count how many wires it is. Roughly'll do, you just need to know if it's 40wires or 80wires across the width.

Explain a bit more. What equipment is this on and what instigated the error, or have you just finished building the system?

- seb

 

[Pederv]

The 80 conductor cable is needed in order to run your HD at UDMA66 or UDMA100. With a 40 conductor cable you're limited to UDMA33.

 

[Raider29]

I am running 2 seagate drives, an AMD Athlon K7 800MHz CPU with a FIC AZ11E mainboard. The problem just started when I changed the combo's of my drives. I was unable to use DMA mode (in control panel/system/device drives/hard disks) because one dc rom was using PIO. I can run in DMA mode fine now but i see that error about the 80 conducter cable when I boot up. I counted 39 pins accross my IDE cable.

 

[Jiggz]

Go get yourself a 80 wire cable. It'll cost less than a six pack of soda and fix that error msg.

 

[Raider29]

Why wasn't I getting this error previously with my drives hooked up differently?

 

[thorin]

"Primary IDE Channel no 80 conducter cable installed "

It means that you need a ATA66/ATA100 cable which contains 80 strands not 40.

However the message is very misleading since in both standard IDE cables (ATA33) and ATA66/100 cables only 40 wires actually conduct anything the extra 40 (making 80 total) in the ATA66/100 cables are just insulators.

Thorin

 

[loosbrew]

the reason why you werent getting that message was because, somewhere along the lines, in the bios, someone had the bios try and detect the drives. when it doesn this, it will detect the drive and the cable at once and not give you the error. but if you just install the drive and leave the bios set to auto, than it will give you that message. happens with my kt7/r also.

loosbrew