Posted by Harry Web on November 06, 19101 at 21:28:42:
In Reply to: Re: Old Server array hdd posted by OperaGost on November 05, 19101 at 12:34:05:
: : I bought an old server the other day for $30 from an auction
: : its a compaq systempro 486/33 dx , it has a EISA hard disk drive
: : array card installed and has four 510mb CP3501 hdd's
: : I took two of the hdd's out and reconfigured the setup so that
: : the array still works with 2 hdd's, so all is well with the server
: : but the two hdd's that I canabalised from it, wont work on any
: : other machine I try them with, I usually have a cable hanging from
: : my secondary ide controller so I can just whack on hdd's and it's
: : not an issue if they are set to master or slave, but these old
: : hdd's dont seem to play by those rules, I have downloaded the
: : specs from this site and played around with the dsp and ss jumpers
: : also, with the c/d and e1, e2 and e3, but nope!! nothing, the cmos
: : setup see's the hdd, but when in windows, I can't see it, I am in
: : need of any advise I can get
: Older IDE drives are notorious for not working properly with dissimilar manufacturers or even different models within the same manufacturer. However, the fact that the drive shows up in the BIOS indicates an OS problem. First, I have to ask if you partitioned the drive with fdisk, since you didn't mention if you had. The disk will not show up with a drive letter until a partition has been created. If you are unable to see the drive in fdisk, see if it appears in Device Manager. It may show up simply as Generic IDE Type xx. If it doesn't show up there, then I'd suspect it has a problem in the drive electronics.
Thankyou Ghost
I will get to it and have a look at the issues
you presented, I didn't fdisk the drive , but I will go in and check it out in the locations you recomended
Thaks again
Ps: I will post the results of the next round of attempts
Harry Web