BIOS doesn't see IDE slave

I just added a Seagate 4GB hard drive as the secondary slave to a running box. It has a DVD rom as the secondary primary, and a 20GB SCSI hd already on it.

Seems like I did everything right, but that must be my ego talking.

No jumper - that's the slave setting I thought. Plugged it in, connected the IDE ribbon, and checked that the BIOS is config'd to auto for the secondary slave.

Now I'm thinking - that hd came off a box I threw out because of repeated disk i/o errors, finally it wouldn't boot the OS at all. Maybe it's just a bad hd?

Maybe I should scrounge another ide and see if that's the real problem then.

No, there was no data to speak of on the ide, just wanting to add the extra space to my network... if possible.

 

Go to Seagate's website and check the specific jumper setting for that drive. Once you are positive its correct, if still no soap - I'd trash it if it won't detect.

 

Before trashing, try another ribbon cable, try setting and connecting it as the master. If this works, then connect the DVDROM as slave.
Still no go... TRASH!

 

A few more kicks to make sure it does not move (Monty Python...Holy Grail, I think... "I'm not dead yet! "):

Run the Seagate utilities on it, Seatools and Diskwizard.

Try running it on Cable Select (if running another drive on the ribbon cable that drive will also need to be set to Cable Select).

Change the BIOS settings from Auto to User and put in the drive's parameters manually (should be listed on the label).

Matt

 

Self Note: Open mouth, insert foot.

Shame on me - I'm just assuming (very dangerous) that cables and power would have been checked/verified - good catch Paul. Also, smart to try as master and Mattman, as an aside - I have set very few HDD's as master/slave for a couple of few years now - do most everything CS. This one is a little different with an optical on the same cable. Smart idea to try manual geometry - I should bite my tongue on quick trash commentary - thanks for bringing this back into focus.

 

A case of to many probable causes with these types of faults. Always Interested to find out which one (if any, including the trash option ) worked.