Help: Problems changing slave to master

[Guest]

I have a Maxtor HDD 15 GB drive, Model: 51536H2. I am having problems changing my hard drive's setting from a Secondary slave to a Primary Master. I have tried to change the sequence in the Cmos, as well as, the jumper settings. I went to Maxtor's site to verify that the jumper setting I have the drive set to is corrrect, but still it keeps being recognized as a slave. The drive is supposed to be new, and therefore it seems I shouldn't have this problem. I have installed new drives before and have never come across this scenario. Please Help!

 

[OldBear]

Tell us more. Do you just have the one hard drive installed? What kind of cable are you using?

<font color=blue>Remember. You get what you pay for. All advice here is free.</font color=blue>

 

[Guest]

There's only one IDE Hard drive connected. Using 40 pin IDE cable.

 

[Spdy_Gonzales]

Are you using the connector at the end of the cable?

"If it weren't for the last minute, alot of things wouldn't get done"

 

[OldBear]

Well I live north of the Red River and with the trouble we have both had with our football teams lately I think our luck is the same. I just got my first dead on arrival Creative CD-rom out of the box. Sounds like your hard drive is the same.

<font color=blue>Remember. You get what you pay for. All advice here is free.</font color=blue>

 

[Spdy_Gonzales]

Maxtor drives require two jumpers.

"If it weren't for the last minute, alot of things wouldn't get done"

 

[Lars_Coleman]

That's an incorrect statement. The Maxtor drives will only need one or they don't need any. Depends on if you enable cylinder limitation or not.

Master -=- J50
Master w/ Cylinder Limitation -=- J50 + J46
Slave -=- No jumpers are needed, but shows two going horizontal.
**Note - Any jumper going horizontal isn't being used.
Slave w/ Cylinder Limitation -=- J46

<font color=red>1GHz AMD x MSI K7T-Turbo x 512MB PC133 x 2-Maxtor 30GB/RAID 0 = Stream Line Butterfly</font color=red>

 

[digital_trucker]

I've got the same problem with a WD 40G. The machine won't see it as a master.

Wabbit season! Duck season! AMD season! INTEL season!
Hmmmph--whatever...