IDE hard drive problems on E510

Question

Here's my issue:   Have added a 300G IDE drive to the 3.5' diskette location in my new E510system.  Things were fine and dandy, drive showed up, formatted, used to backup SATA drive.  After several days, and a reboot, neither the CD or 300G drive attached to IDE port show up.  Here's what I have done thus far:   If I connect only P8 power to disk and leave P9 disconnected to CD, disk shows up fine If I connect only P9 power to disk and leave P8 disconnected to CD, disk shows up fine   If I connect both power connections, NEITHER device shows up (even in BIOS)   I've also replaced the IDE cable just for grins, with no change to the above.   Both IDE devices set to cable select.     Could the power supply be having problems driving both devices?  That doesn't make any sense.  If anyone has any ideas, I'm stumped.     Thanks!

shesagordie · Answer

briancarp

Try changing the HD jumper setting Master and the optical drive to slave, then connect the HD to the end of the IDE cable and the optical drive to the middle connector. As the hard drive worked, I guess it was set to Auto in the setup.

How did you manage to connect a standard IDE ribbon cable to the HD placed in the 3.5" floppy drive bay with the optical drive?

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/cabling/deskstar.htm

It may be better to install the hard drive in the empty 5.25" bay using a set of these brackets,

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16856999211

The power supply is more than adequate for additional drives, it's graphic cards, that can be the power hogs.

Bev.

briancarp · Answer

OK...I'll try setting the master/slave when I get home.

As far as the question on how did I connect up a "standard IDE ribbon cable", there are 2 drops off a standard IDE cable, and I just attached one to the new drive I added (in the physical location where a diskette drive would normally go)

briancarp · Answer

OK..I set the optical to Master (it was at the end of the cable) and the disk to slave.  Same exact issue.  With one connected, everything is fine.

briancarp · Answer

OK..I switched it to the hard drive as master and the DVD to slave: BINGO it worked!   I really don't understand why that would work and other configs won't.  Anyone venture a guess?

shesagordie · Answer

briancarp   Great, pleased to hear the system is running.   I have no idea why, but I have run into this problem before and the workaround, I posted seems to be the answer. I believe it's the way the BIOS read the drives.   Bev.

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