IDE problem

[achter]

I added a new hard drive to my system(maxtor 18 gig). It has never worked very well(freezing up) until I added a slave 1.6 gig HD. Then the 1.6 failed and now the other HD(maxtor) will not recognize at boot up. I changed the settings in BIOS of course.

The interesting part is when I unplug the IDE2 cable from the MB(which has 2 CDs on it ) the HD runs great by itself.

What could be wrong?

[Starcraft_Ak]

two words..........bois upgrade

[BBA]

Disable another device through bios, something not used, such as a serial port.

If your problem goes away it is a I/O resource conflict and the bios is actaully trying to make it work, which is why performance suffers because address ranges don't share too well.

Just a thought!

[davem]

Achter
Are both of your cd's trying to run as master . Check the jumper settings

[Squirrel]

I've been having problems with Hd's just recently.

Found that the Maxtor 13.2Gb drive really was causing problems, (IDE channel in win98 being disabled and it taking over an hour to copy a few Gig of info from one drive to another)

The reason for all this is because the new Maxtor drives are UDMA/66 compatible, whereas I'm running with a version of AMI BIOS which is UDMA/33. The system BIOS tries to jump up to Mode 4 (UDMA/66) automatically, and get very confused as the motherboard can't handle this, subsequently, the system then drops to the lowest PIO speed possible and causes all kind of weird errors.

The answer it to flash your BIOS to the most uptodate version, or, in Maxtors case, they have a HD Firmware utility which will force the HD to POST it's upper speed it a max of Mode 2 - UDMA/33.

have a look on their site. http://www.maxtor.com/maxblast/

Since I've done this it's worked a dream, faster that I've ever had my system go.

Hope this is of help...

[achter]

Thanks for your help, I will try your suggestions.