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
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
Matthew wrote:
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.
Do you know for a fact that your mobo BIOS can handle drives >128GB? -- "If you love your children, you will be prompt to discipline them." Proverbs 13:24 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/partitioningindex.html
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 16:22 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Matthew wrote:
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.
Do you know for a fact that your mobo BIOS can handle drives >128GB? --
Latest BIOS is from 2003, and got this motherboard earlier this year. Shouldn't BIOS's post 2001 be able to take 160GB drives? And if not, would it only show 128GB? The motherboard is a Syntax S746FX. If I put my 20GB IBM drive it works fine. Many thanks for all the replies. Matt
Matthew wrote:
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 16:22 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Do you know for a fact that your mobo BIOS can handle drives >128GB?
Latest BIOS is from 2003, and got this motherboard earlier this year. Shouldn't BIOS's post 2001 be able to take 160GB drives? And if not,
Most likely, but it could be broken.
would it only show 128GB?
Behavior as a result of attempting to use unsupported devices is unpredictable, but I doubt showing 128G would happen. Historically, not found or POST hangs result from too big HDs.
The motherboard is a Syntax S746FX.
Never heard of the brand.
If I put my 20GB IBM drive it works fine.
Maybe the maker has a support forum you could ask on. Maybe its BIOS download page shows what was fixed in the updates. Maybe your problme has nothing to do with the BIOS. Maybe you should find some other system to try the device in to confirm or deny its status. -- "If you love your children, you will be prompt to discipline them." Proverbs 13:24 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/partitioningindex.html
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 00:37 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
Maybe the maker has a support forum you could ask on. Maybe its BIOS download page shows what was fixed in the updates. Maybe your problme has nothing to do with the BIOS. Maybe you should find some other system to try the device in to confirm or deny its status. --
Thanks for the time, tried on another system with a Dragon board, same result, and the mainboards are as up to date as possible BIOS wise. Assuming it really is a broken drive from the outset. At least I know I did everything I could, even set the drive to be a 32 gig one and this still failed. Many thanks, Matt
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
If I remember correctly, Linux does the LBA or the figuring out of the hard drive geometry not the BIOS. The other thing is that hard drive controllers can get confused (UDMA/100 controllers looking at UDMA/66 drives with the different off-spec cables and then think they can go high-speed using the wrong cable). Check your IDE cable (it may have broken even with normal pulling out), put the proper staple in the right place on the rear of the drive (M/S/CableSelect), and it may just be easier for you if you have or can borrow an USB drive enclosure to try it if you need to test the drive. I use a extra USB2 drive enclosure (I have 1.8 / 2"/3 1/2 and 5 1/4")and put suspect drives in there. If there is a power supply problem in your box, then you will see the drive come up properly. If there is a drive problem, it will reproduce itself using the USB2/SCSI drive subsystem. Most enclosure kits are going down in price and you should think about using USB2 and getting the drives out of that hot enclosure. Heat is enemy number one with electronics. I use laptops almost exclusively so I get away from power supplies problems that way. Let us all know what you end up doing. Adam in NYC
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