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Problem Detecting IDE Devices with NF7-S 2.0
Hey guys, I just bought an NF7-S board and am in the process of building
it. I ran into one problem, and that is with my harddrives. The motherboard would freeze at the part that says "Detecting IDE Devices." Well, I did my research and sure enough, it's my older Western Digital harddrives which seem to cause problems with this board. One of them will not be detected at all no matter how I run it (whether it be in Dual Master/Slave mode or just Single mode). So I've tried everything I've read in different forums (mostly playing with the jumpers) and the thing that worked for me was cutting the first two wires on the IDE cable (the red one and the one next to it). I'm willing to live with this if it fixes my problem, but my question is, will having these two lines cut cause problems in the future, such as data corruption? What do the first two wires on an IDE cable actually do? Thanks for the help! Xavier |
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"Xavier" wrote in message m... Hey guys, I just bought an NF7-S board and am in the process of building it. I ran into one problem, and that is with my harddrives. The motherboard would freeze at the part that says "Detecting IDE Devices." Well, I did my research and sure enough, it's my older Western Digital harddrives which seem to cause problems with this board. One of them will not be detected at all no matter how I run it (whether it be in Dual Master/Slave mode or just Single mode). So I've tried everything I've read in different forums (mostly playing with the jumpers) and the thing that worked for me was cutting the first two wires on the IDE cable (the red one and the one next to it). I'm willing to live with this if it fixes my problem, but my question is, will having these two lines cut cause problems in the future, such as data corruption? What do the first two wires on an IDE cable actually do? Thanks for the help! Xavier WD drives are known to have this problem. If using the drive as a single OS drive, the jumper should be *removed* (it says this on the drive, itself, I believe). Don't know what leads you cut, but repair them and run the drive without the jumper and all should be OK. |
the red line is the reset line, it does no harm cutting that line.
i used to cut that line, when i had my h/d in my old amiga it stops the h/d spinning up and down when you reset the computer. what the second line is just a ground line from what i can find out http://inf33-www.informatik.unibw-mu...r/tutorial/epr mhtml/eprmb/1290.htm hope that helps homer "Xavier" wrote in message m... Hey guys, I just bought an NF7-S board and am in the process of building it. I ran into one problem, and that is with my harddrives. The motherboard would freeze at the part that says "Detecting IDE Devices." Well, I did my research and sure enough, it's my older Western Digital harddrives which seem to cause problems with this board. One of them will not be detected at all no matter how I run it (whether it be in Dual Master/Slave mode or just Single mode). So I've tried everything I've read in different forums (mostly playing with the jumpers) and the thing that worked for me was cutting the first two wires on the IDE cable (the red one and the one next to it). I'm willing to live with this if it fixes my problem, but my question is, will having these two lines cut cause problems in the future, such as data corruption? What do the first two wires on an IDE cable actually do? Thanks for the help! Xavier |
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