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P2bf - Auto detect WD 26400 ?
- Bob - wrote:
My P2Bf will not auto detect a WD 26400 (6gb) during boot. It's set to "auto", the system waits a while and looks during boot, but it shows up as "none" and then moves on. However, If I go into the BIOS and run the IDE Drive Detection it does just fine and pulls all the info, setting it to "User" instead of "Auto". Runs fine after that. Shouldn't it be able to find the drive through either mechanism? (I admit to the BIOS being old and dated on this mobo). Thanks, Bob The P2BF should auto detect, and support, that WD drive, without problem. Do you have the drive jumpered properly? If it is the ONLY hard drive on the primary or secondary controller, jumper the WD drive as Single, if there are two drives on the controller then use the Dual Master/Slave jumpers. Good luck, Steven |
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Bob wrote:
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:07:49 -0500, Steven Hilgendorf wrote: The P2BF should auto detect, and support, that WD drive, without problem. Do you have the drive jumpered properly? If it is the ONLY hard drive on the primary or secondary controller, jumper the WD drive as Single, if there are two drives on the controller then use the Dual Master/Slave jumpers. Thanks... you assurance that it should work sent me back for another round. I tried it with no jumpers (single) and it worked ( and it's on a cable with a slave, go figure). I know I tried that before. Then I set it up as Master since that's the way it should be and that worked fine too. Well, whatever. I know I tried every combination, and like I said it was able to see it physically because it worked find in the BIOS IDE detection. Weird, but all fixed. Good to hear it worked out Bob! Since the WD drive is on a controller with another IDE device, you will want to jumper it as Dual Master/Slave to prevent future data corruption. If the WD drive is at the end of the cable (Preferred), jumper it as master (jumper pins 5-6), then jumper the other IDE device in the middle of the cable as slave. If the WD drive is in the middle of the cable, jumper it as slave (jumper pins 3-4) and jumper the other IDE device at the end of the cable as master. Take care, Steven |
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