Mainframeguy
Debiant by way of Ubuntu
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I have a couple of problems - one serious and one peculiar....
The serious one is that my new rig is not recognising my slave drive. They are both 160GB Spinpoint 1614N's (ATA 133) with the 8MB cache and the funny thing is it seemed to be fine but I realised I had moved the jumper, thinking that was the slave position by the writing on the case - then it came up as a 32GB drive! I realised there was a jumper setting to limit drive, and so I took it off and then it was gone. I have tried a CMOS reset and rechecked IDE cable and believe I can feel some drive vibration so it should be spinning up- but it is not even there in BIOS and will not detect when I try to. I even tried setting the jumper for cable select, but that didn't help.
It is really bugging me - because I know it was there OK when I installed windows because it gave me an option to select where to install! I guess I should try swapping IDE cables over, when I can get the enthusiasm to at least rule that out. Other than that is there anything else to try or is it an unexplained failure and I need to RMA?
The less serious is that my primary 160GB drive shows up as 130,096 MB in NTFS and 7GB unformatted (think that's the right numbers) - I know I loose SOME from the formatting and calculations, but did not think it was that much, could anyone out there with a 160GB drive confirm or deny?
All these troubles - it's fun putting together a new system when it is sweet, but why do I seem like a magnet for trouble?
The serious one is that my new rig is not recognising my slave drive. They are both 160GB Spinpoint 1614N's (ATA 133) with the 8MB cache and the funny thing is it seemed to be fine but I realised I had moved the jumper, thinking that was the slave position by the writing on the case - then it came up as a 32GB drive! I realised there was a jumper setting to limit drive, and so I took it off and then it was gone. I have tried a CMOS reset and rechecked IDE cable and believe I can feel some drive vibration so it should be spinning up- but it is not even there in BIOS and will not detect when I try to. I even tried setting the jumper for cable select, but that didn't help.
It is really bugging me - because I know it was there OK when I installed windows because it gave me an option to select where to install! I guess I should try swapping IDE cables over, when I can get the enthusiasm to at least rule that out. Other than that is there anything else to try or is it an unexplained failure and I need to RMA?
The less serious is that my primary 160GB drive shows up as 130,096 MB in NTFS and 7GB unformatted (think that's the right numbers) - I know I loose SOME from the formatting and calculations, but did not think it was that much, could anyone out there with a 160GB drive confirm or deny?
All these troubles - it's fun putting together a new system when it is sweet, but why do I seem like a magnet for trouble?