John Bartow
john at winhaven.net
Thu Jan 26 20:17:39 CST 2006
Sorry Steve, My message was offline so I'll copy and paste it into this reply... ----------------------------------------------- >From Steve: What I had done was take that 20 GB drive and connect it to the SIIG UltraATA 66 PCI controller in my old workstation. The added controller added 2 IDE connectors to my system's existing two, allowing for 8 IDE devices. I set up the drive as a slave on the same cable as another IDE hard disk that was a master. I already have 3 hard disks in this particular system. This almost-dead drive makes 4 hard disks. When I boot up the system I first see the drives connected to the onboard IDE controllers. Everything's copacetic there. Then I see the drives on the SIIG controller...and that dying 20 GB drive is recognized by the controller. So far, so good. But when Windows gets to the XP progress bar screen with the Windows copyright information, the progress bar never gets going. That is, the blue lights that traverse the progress bar never appear. I have to power off the machine. Next I connected the dying drive as a slave on one of the main IDE connectors. It's on the same IDE channel that controls the CD drive in that system. Start up again...and THIS time, Windows boots normally! The only thing different is that the drive is connected to one of the onboard IDE controllers instead of the SIIG controller. I'm not copying data from the dying drive -- which doesn't seem to be dying anymore -- to another drive via the LAN. This is my son's hard disk and his old Gateway system has started to flake out. I think I'll try putting his drive back into the Gateway to see if the thing'll start. ----------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 5:57 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Almost dead hard disk Erwin, There have been some developments. See my reply to John. Thank you so much for your suggestions. Steve Erbach On 1/26/06, Erwin Craps - IT Helps <Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be> wrote: > I own situation where a bad master/slave signaling was happening, > blocking access to the slave. > > I give it a shot when you are busy mounting the drive. Be sure to set > the jumper to master. > > I might have missed something, but does your BIOS see the drive? > > Erwin > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com