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Old August 29th 04, 09:07 PM
Steven Hilgendorf
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Default 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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Old September 1st 04, 05:00 PM
Steven Hilgendorf
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Bob wrote:

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:07:49 -0500, Steven Hilgendorf
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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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