Problem With Ultra DMA Hard drive

[mephizto]

Hi,

I´m having some problems with my brand new Seagate 80GB
hard drive, I allready have a Westen Digital 80GB hard drive.

Both of the hard drives are working perfect alone as primary
master. But they won´t work together.

I have tried different jumper settings but none have worked.

When I start the computer with both hard drives conected as master and slave i get and error message saying that no bootable devices where found.
I have installed Windows XP on both hard drives
and they are working fine alone as masters.

When using the old Westen Digital as slave and the Seagate
as master (booting from the WS) I could reach windows
and both of the Hard Drives where found, but the Seagate
was very slow and frooze every ten seconds and it all
ended with a blue screen telling me that a device in the
computer wasn´t corectly instaled.

I belive that the problem can be that the Seagate hard drive
is supporting UDMA and the Western Digital is not, and that
creates some kind of conflict between them.

Anybody knows what can be wrong or having some kind of solution to this problem

Computer Specs:
Pentium 4 2,4 Ghz
Motherboard ASUS P4P800 Deluxe
HD 1 Westen Digital Caviar SE 8mb 7,2K 80GB
HD 2 Seagate Barracuda Udma100 (7200RPM)
256 DDRam

Thanx
Tobias Karlsson

[RicheemxX]

I's say you don't have the jumpers on the drives set right. sounds to me like you have the WD set to either cable select or no jumper and the seagate set to master. double check those make sure you have them set on the cable correctly. Also make sure they are being detected properly in the bios before trying to boot to windows

and they both support udma/uata or at least they should

[Mr. NoOne]

Try setting both drives as CS (cable select) and use an 80 wire IDE cable.....then let your BIOS detect the drives again...

[John Prophet]

yeah..my guess would have to be jumpers also.....double check the jumpers...I know that WD has some different settings than other drives....but just double/triple check each drive for the jumper settings.

[jmichna]

Like the others have suggested, make sure the jumpers are set right, also, using an 80-pin cable, make sure the drive set as Master is at the terminal end of the cable, and the Slave is at the middle connector... this keeps things as simple and straight-forward as possible. The blue connector must be connected to the motherboard's IDE controller.

Also, did I understand correctly, that you have two bootable drives, complete with OS, on these drives?

[nodnerb2]

Hi,

I don't think having an OS on both Drives is the problem.

I have W2K(NTFS) and Win 98SE(FAT 32) on different drives here and have no problem booting, most of the time it is 2K but I can change the BIOS to boot into WIN 98 off the other one no problem when I am helping my father over the phone on the other side of the world with his 98 Machine.

Cheers

Nodnerb2

[jmichna]

nodnerb2...
Seems like in mephizto's case we are not talking about a dual-boot system (what you likely are using), but rather two drives set up independent of each other with complete, bootable WinXP OS... from the description, seems like they don't know the other OS exists.

[Bill in SD, CA]

What does the BIOS show about the drives ....... either way you hook them up?

Bill

[nodnerb2]

Hi,

jmichna
If you read what I had written you would see that I said it was on two drives. I have 1 set as master and 1 as slave ( are we still allowed to say that here?)

Each has it's own OS the one with 2k has 6 partitions which I have divided up into useful titles, work -synced with my ipaq, photos, drwgs etc on a 40 gb Drive, the other 1 has two partitions.

Cheers

Nodnerb2

[RicheemxX]

having 2 os's on 2 seperate drives shouldn't make a difference. The problem is somewhere in the jumper settings oe the cable setup. There should be no issue with the drives both being detected in the bios properly no matter what info is stored on them. He needs to make sure that the jumpers are set correctly as I've previously stated and make sure theya re detected properly in the bios before even worrying about getting them to boot.

I really don't see a reason for 2 seperate versions of xp though.