60 GB IBM Install... Questions

[Brangwen]

Fellow Members:

I am installing a 60 GB IBM HDD (7200RPM / ATA100) on my Win2KPro system as a Secondary slave simply to FDISK and format it for a different system.

I left it jumped as it was (I'm fairly certain it was jumped as a slave in previous system, but not positive ...) Cabled and booted. HDD was picked up in that it appears to show up on POST as "Secondary slave" but no brand name like my Primary Master "Maxtor" or Secondary Master "Plextor."

CMOS shpws "something" in Secondary slave position though no info as to number of MBs, heads, brand, etc. (Set to "Auto".)

Only one IDE HDD on Primary channel, and Secondary master is a CDRW. Any ideas what the problem is?

Award BIOS (2003) in IWill XP333-R motherboard. I may need some software (a utility) to load this HDD, don't remember. I don't remember having any difficulty like this last time I built a box with a similar drive, i.e., no utility was needed. I likely have itjumped wrong

I am looking at IBM website but no help that I can find to help me with jumper settings. Any help would be appreciated.

Brangwen

[sm8000]

There should be a jumper diagram right on the drive itself. Change it to master and the CD drive to slave.

Once you boot into Windows, run diskmgmt.msc to see if the drive appears. If it does, great, you can initialize it, and even format it from there if you like. Not sure if you can make partitions.

[Brangwen]

sm8000:

Perhaps I was unclear.

On my Primary Channel I only have a 40 GB Maxtor HDD (my system's boot drive) ... I have no device on the Primary Slave.

I have my burner Mastered on the Secondary Master. There is nothing on the Secondary Slave.

As for the IBM HDD I only wish to prepare it to be a logical slave storage HDD.

Is it your position that I cannot work with the IBM HDD in the Secondary Slave position?

I went to the IBM / Hitachi site and am planning on using a utility program there to recognize and prep the HDD. Hopefully it will work.

www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm

What do you think?

Brangwen

[sm8000]

You were perfectly clear, it is I who was unclear. My suggestion was (and still is) to make the IBM drive a master on the secondary channel, and slave the burner to it. Once you boot into Windows and run Disk Management, the drive will be initialized and BIOS and fdisk should be able to recognize it. The download utility may also help, but I can't give any pointers there since I don't usually use them.

[Brangwen]

sm8000:

I appreciate your patience, and your responses!

I was unclear also: In my post I intended to impart that once this IBM HDD is prepared to be a logical storage HDD (fdisk'ed and formatted) I'm yanking it out to ship to my sister in a different state in order that she can cable it up as a slave on her Win98se computer.

So, would it matter if I simply mastered the HDD and left the CDRW uncabled until I was finished, then recabled the burner in the Master position? Then I'd jump the HDD to slave before I shipped ... ?

It never ceases to surprise me that regardless of the nember of computers one assembles, fundamentals such as simple installs of HDDs are forgotten!

Thx.

Brangwen

PS: Why must the HDD be mastered to work with it? I'm curious ...

[sm8000]

To answer your question, yes if you did go to master for that drive, you'd have to reposition the optical drive and rejumper them both once it is done. Or as you said, disconnect the burner altogether and leave its jumper alone. As for mastering the drive, I only mentioned it because it may help, no real reason it should but if it is still having trouble being detected in the slave spot after initialization, changing the jumper may help.

[Brangwen]

sm8000:

You should laugh, I did!

The HDD wasn't getting picked up because I had not switched the BIOS/CMOS to LBA for that HDD!

Thx.

Brangwen

[sm8000]

Duh! (kicks self)

Well I'm glad it's worked out for you now.