RE: Cheap 40Gb HDD

["David Yeend" <david.yeend@xxxxxxx>]

I was interested but put off through past experience with 'low cost'
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which raises a question I have been meaning to resolve for a while.......
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I am sure one of you wizards will know the answer to this.......
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I purchased a 'low cost' HDD from PC World a while back - a 40GB Western
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gital IIRC which allegedly was fully ATA/IDE compatible - the drive was
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=A340. However it would not work on 3 motherboards I tried to use it with
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simply not recognised - jumpers correct, only drive on a single drive cabl=
e...... I took it back to PC World and they put it in a machine and demoed
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it working. Later I did find a machine that it worked in, nothing
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rly special about it though.
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The chap who tested the HDD asked if the boards I tried to use it with
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old. When I checked the oldest was around 2 years, the most recently produ=
ced board was around 1 year old. All of the boards were different
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rers, I did not check the BIOS or look for upgrades.
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I expect I have been too vague but.....Does anyone know of any general
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lems which may cause certain motherboards to be sensitive to certain
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?
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Regards,
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David


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