RE: Cheap 40Gb HDD

["Kilgore, Andrew" <amkilgore@xxxxxxx>]

Hi David,
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In the past I have found that some WD drives will only work with certain
motherboards if you set the drives jumper to "Cable Select".
Even if it's the only drive in the system, setting it to "Master"
did
absolutely no good whatsoever.
A real pain in the behind...!
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Thanks,
Andy.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Yeend [mailto:david.yeend@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 09 February 2004 10:14
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Cheap 40Gb HDD


I was interested but put off through past experience with 'low cost' drives
which raises a question I have been meaning to resolve for a while.......

I am sure one of you wizards will know the answer to this.......

I purchased a 'low cost' HDD from PC World a while back - a 40GB Western
Digital IIRC which allegedly was fully ATA/IDE compatible - the drive was
<
=A340. However it would not work on 3 motherboards I tried to use it with -
simply not recognised - jumpers correct, only drive on a single drive
cable...... I took it back to PC World and they put it in a machine and
demoed it working. Later I did find a machine that it worked in, nothing
particularly special about it though.

The chap who tested the HDD asked if the boards I tried to use it with were
old. When I checked the oldest was around 2 years, the most recently
produced board was around 1 year old. All of the boards were different
manufacturers, I did not check the BIOS or look for upgrades.

I expect I have been too vague but.....Does anyone know of any general
problems which may cause certain motherboards to be sensitive to certain
drives?

Regards,

David


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