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Old October 10th 07, 03:04 AM posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq
Ben Myers
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Default Problems recognizing hard disk Compaq Proliant ML350

The BIOS autodetects both IDE hard drives and CD-ROM drives. There is nothing
you can do with the system BIOS settings to change that.

Check the cable connections at both ends, motherboard and drive.

Make sure that the 80GB IDE drive is jumpered either Master (MA) or Cable Select
(CS). The Master setting won't hurt, even if the cable is a newer cable select
type.

Could be a failed drive that spins but with a flaky circuit board... Ben Myers

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 17:30:11 -0500, martino
wrote:


Hi,
last week I bought a second-hand Compaq Proliant ML350 server. There
are 2 SCSI 9 GB drives in it, but they are not connected (I was told),
and there's also a 80 GB IDE drive, as well as a SCSI tape unit and a
CD-ROM drive.
The computer won't boot from the hard drive, but that's okay: the
seller told me he had formatted the drive (in another computer, why,
really?), but when I tried to install a copy of Windows on it the
procedure produced the message that "no hard disk was found on your
system".
The thing is, when I enter setup (F10) it says that there is no primary
drive 0 found (it sees the CD-ROM drive just fine). It's not possible to
change that entry in the setup from there.
What options do I have? Take out the battery for a while to reset the
BIOS? Try to get the Compaq Diagnostics CD's from somewhere? Something
else?
And yes, the drive is physically there, anmd it's spinning...

Thanks in advance