my PC has maxtor 120G as primary master, zip drive as primary slave, CD rom reader as secondary master, cd rom writer as secondary slave. I replace the CD rom reader with an old hard drive (Quantum Fireball 40G), so I can copy the old data over. When the computer starts, everythings shows in BIOS...

(I actually have 4 hard dirves but the problem is on the Primary IDE only.) I have a home-built rig: Promise Ultra 133 TX card (with latest BIOS) 2 Maxtor HDDs: 1) 91000D8 (10 GB , 7200 RPM) 2) 6Y120LO (120 GB, 7200 RPM) 80 pin cable. Goal:

I have an Asus P4P800 Deluxe with a P4 2.4C processor, on the latest BIOS. I am running two WD 1200JB drives, one drive is on IDE 0 and the other drive is on one of the VIA RAID channels. IDE 1 has a DVD burner on it. There is also two SCSI CDROM drives installed on an Adaptec 2940 UW card. Win...

Hi, I have a PC with Windows XP and I'm going to add a 2nd HD to my PC and install fedora on it (dual-boot). My question is: will the 2 operating systems use the same device drivers to interact with devices like CD-drive, sound card, video card, TV card, etc? Or will each operating system use it's...

Is there such thing as an USB controller that can handle up to 4 hard drives to one? The reason I'm asking because I have need for more space but my PC's a bit cramped and getting individual USB enclosure would be more expensive than a single setup. I have an old AT case with power supply and I...

I have one PCI IDE controller card installed, and I'm trying to add another IDE channel to my PC. It turns out that both makes of PCI IDE controller cards that I bought use the same chipset (SIL680) and so they use the same BIOS and IRQ and memory adrs, etc. Naturally, the resource conflict is...

Modern mainboards have SATA controllers and old IDE controllers. Can you connect a total of 6 drives to the mainboard, and have them all work?

Hi everyone, I'm wondering what are the low cost solution for 2 Terabytes storage. It's SAN, NAS or something else. Thanks Sam

I bought a 2-board/4-port 1394b enclosure for 3 hard drives and a DVD burner. I found that the DVD burner and hard drive on the same controller wouldn't work at the samt time. Testing more, I discovered that when I tried copying between two drives (Say, A and cool.gif on one of the controllers in...

Powerquest has posted an update (bug fix) for V2i Desktop 2.0. The update is version 2.1 . However, the file is huge (over 300 mb) and I have not been able to get it to complete the download. Has anyone else been able to get the update to download? The download is only available for registered...

The newer hard drives from WD and Hitachi are using a non-standard drive height form factor. So I was wondering if there is a compatibility list available for laptops. 300gb form factor compatibility lists...?

I bought a few USB 2.0 IDE enclosures on ebay for 2.5 inchdrives, described as "new chipset" enclosures They are very simple, and were cheap. Curiously both have failed at the same time after about a year of not particularly heavy periodic use. They have failed on all drives and with similar...

Spent a couple of bucks on an adapter to put a notebook drive in a desktop, in one of those ya-never-know-when moments. Well after a couple of years, I found I needed to test a drive this weekend. But the 3.5 inch male part of the adapter had too many pins. The female on my desktop's IDE cable was...

Hallo, does anyone know if there are already available 2,5" notebook EIDE/ATA HDDs in a size bigger than 100 GB ? If not, is it known whether the large manufacturers are already working on them and intending to release them in the near future (i.e. 1Q2005) ? Thanks.

I am considering building an external 2.5" USB drive unit using one of those aluminum drive enclosures which are supposedly fanless using the aluminum as a heat sink. What I'm wondering is how much heat build-up there would be if I leave this unit always on powered by the USB connection from my...

Hello I bought an old, second-hand, 2.5" Fujistu MHN2200AT drive and the following data + power adaptor so I can use it in a regular PC with an IDE plug and Molex power plug: http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/5893/laptopdriveidecabledq0.jpg However, the drive is not seen by the two PC's in...

Hi, I'm looking for a 100GB, 5400 RPM, 2.5" drive, and considering the ones from Hitachi (5K100), Seagate (ST9100823A-RK), and Toshiba, and was wondering if anyone here had any recommendations, especially relative to reliability? Thanks, Jim

Are they using the same set of plugs as 3.5" SATA disks? How about... 1.8 inch ones? -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (Xubuntu 8.04) Linux 2.6.25.7 ^ ^ 19:41:01 up 7:43 2 users load average: 1.26 1.54...

Hi Folks, I have one of the above drives on which I think the circuit board is fried. Does anyone have, or know where I might get a second hand circuit board to fix it? I dont really want to spend too much money on it, as its more of a test of my theory than anything, but I will happily remburse...

Good day, I have a Toshiba 80 gb 2.5" hard disk. The drive works perfectly for 5-10 minutes, then it stops and I need to disconnect it and close it for 2 hours to cool down. When cool it can work agaIn for 5-10 minutes. I managed to save my files and I left the hard disk on my desk. Is there a way...