Can't detect slave drive
 

Hey guys, I need some help. My system was working fine until I was testing some old IDE HD's. Now the slave drive (IDE 80GB) is not detecting when connected to my primary OS/programs drive (IDE 20GB). I've troubleshooted everything....

- Pri or sec port with both HD = BAD
- Pri or sec port with CDR+DVDR = OK
- New cables on pri or sec port with both HD = BAD
- New cables on pri or sec port with CDR+DVDR = OK
- 20GB only on pri or sec = OK
- 80GB only on pri or sec = OK
- 20GB (M) + CDR or DVDR (S) on either pri or sec = BAD
- 20GB (S) + CDR or DVDR (M) on either pri or sec = OK
- 80GB + CDR or DVDR in any S/M config on pri or sec = OK

All above combos were tested with cable select configs. The only thing that I can think of that I didn't try was reverting bios settings back to its default config, and I'd really not do that.

Currently running an Athlon 2000+ and MSI Ultra KT3 (Ami bios).

If anyone can give some pointers, let me know. Thanks.

try not using cable selection and manual putting the jumpers to primary or slave

Yeah, fiddle with the jumpers and make one master and one slave.

Gave up on it. I just imaged my 20GB to another 20GB I had lying around and it worked. Thanks for the replies though.