On Wednesday 20 July 2005 10:42 am, Matthew wrote:
Good day,
Think its a hardware issue with a new drive, when going t the BIOS and selecting Auto, instead of this switching to User and displaying all the relevant information it remains on Auto and the column over in grey just says the capacity. Only thing visible and selectable is 32 bit mode. On reboot the BIOS halts with an error, command failure primary master on occasion. If I try to install, yast hangs for a long time and on one of the screens you can see bad blocks and dma timeouts being produced. Never seen this with a drive before and wanted to see if everyone thinks its a broken drive...First time I have ever had this.
Many thanks,
Matt
Make sure you have the latest BIOS for your mainboard. Make sure the IDE cable is an 80-pin variety and that it is seated well on the mainboard and the drive itself. And pin-1 is in the right spot? Swap it out for another cable if you have one. Make sure you have the drive's ID jumper set for Master/Slave and in the right position on the cable. If there is another IDE device on the cable make sure it is ID'd correctly. Is your power supply providing enough power for everything in the system? If you have lots of stuff in the system, maybe unplug power from a few drives,devices and see if this one device starts to work properly. If it does, go get a new or more powerful PS. Got another system to test this drive in? If it fails there then it probably is a bad drive. Stan