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August 4th, 2009 20:00

EIDE Drive on Optiplex GX520

I have an 80 Gig SATA drive installed with DVD/CD Rom drive with the standard "criss-cross" cables.  I tried to install an EIDE 320 Gig on the same cable, tried all configurations of jumpers, switched the cable back and forth, etc.  Could not read the drive.

 

What am I missing here?

 

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August 5th, 2009 15:00

The GX520 comes in three configurations: Mini-Tower, Desktop and
Small Form Factor.  You have a SATA hard drive (original?) and it
has a DVD/CD drive (IDE).  You added an IDE hard drive to the
IDE Cable with the CD/DVD drive. 

Did you do the following .... set the DVD/CD drive jumper to the
Cable Select position (factory setting) and set IDE hard drive
jumper to the Cable Select position.  Upon boot-up, did you enter
the Set-up and enable the IDE channel that the new hard drive is
connected too?

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