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Re: USB hard disks
You said you had no IDE, but presumably you have a DVD drive right? And it
would be PATA/IDE?
Possibly this is a somewhat simpler issue - make sure the IDE drive is
jumpered as Master. Not Cable Select, and definately not Slave. That can
be the difference between working and not. If you are seeing the USB Mass
Storage interface installed but not a disk, that is very possibly the issue.
Rich
"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
news:uaH0dtAFHHA.3616@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> That just does not sound right. Check with the manufacturer of the
> enclosure.
>
> I know a lot of the recent boards have PATA turned off in the BIOS. Check
> your board manual or the website for the right settings and give it a try.
> But I still don't see how anything IDE on the board could matter. I don't
> care whether the connector in the enclosure is for an IDE or SATA drive,
> if you are using the usb connector on the enclosure you are connecting to
> the usb bus on the computer. A puzzler.
>
> OT: If you have an external SATA connector on the box, try a SATA
> enclosure sometime. On the newer boxes the external connector is just
> like having a SATA 5 (assuming you have 4 SATA connectors on the board)
> and you can use it as a boot drive. I did that all through the beta and
> RC.
>
> "Mark Rae" <mark@markNOSPAMrae.com> wrote in message
> news:OYXvOkAFHHA.2452@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23l6jTcAFHHA.1784@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>
>>> Check your BIOS settings for your board.
>>
>> You mean the motherboard on the PC...?
>>
>>> I don't see why the firmware in the drive enclosure wouldn't communicate
>>> with the usb bus just fine. I can't imagine that the IDE connection in
>>> the enclosure would make any difference at all. The enclosure is not
>>> connecting to an IDE port on the box. The system should just see it as
>>> a mass storage device.
>>
>> Everything you say makes perfect sense, and would have been my reaction
>> too... :-)
>>
>> However, after having tried on five separate machines now, the common
>> denominator appears to be whether the machine has IDE drives or not. If
>> it has, the USB harness works - if it hasn't, it doesn't...
>>
>> I'm considering installing an IDE hard disk into the new machine which
>> currently has only SATA drives, though the motherboard has the standard
>> two dual IDE channels... Doing that should prove / disprove it...
>>
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