The WD drive was set correctly, and as CS 1 with maxtor as CS 2 it
worked fine for a couple months, then it's as if the maxtor just slowly
melted away. It gave me enough time to back up what was important to
keep, then would no longer work. Except when I used the maxtor powermax
software to test it, it showed no errors at all. I then traded the
maxtor for the DVD/rw and the WD drive with the dvdrw are running fine
with no problems. I installed the maxtor drive by itself on a new 80
wire cable, still with the same problems. The replacement maxtor
behaves the same way. Only after I install it on a 40 wire cable does
it become useable.

I was concerned as hard drives become larger and faster, they would
become less reliable. Maybe it's rather becoming true.

Franklin

--- iallen{at}accesswave.ca wrote:
> As you are using a Western Digital drive - have another look at it
> and see if it is one with the 9 pin jumper settings.    Read the
> document at:-
> 
> http://support.wdc.com/techinfo/general/jumpers.asp
> 
> One of the most common reasons I see for ATA drive problems is that
> users assume they only need to know about 'Master, Slave and Cable
> Select'.   As the above document shows there are drives with
> additional jumper settings depending if they have a slave or not.  Be
> careful that you are not having problems as others have done by not
> using the jumpers as required.  Just last week, somone at work came
> to me saying they had a problem getting drives to work on their home
> PC...It was the jumper problem on the existing Master that stops the
> new slave from working...

> >Thanks for the info. My Maxtor is 6Y080P0 it's an ATA-133 drive. I
> changed the
> >drive from CS to master/no slave and kept 80 wire cable attached.
> Set up a
> >fat16 and fat32 partition with Powermax, with LVM a JFS partition.
> Was able to
> >write with os2, (sounding like the little drummer boy and about 30
> seconds to
> >write a 20 meg file) couldn't read. Windows kept giving blue screens
> when I
> >tried to write to it.  DaniS506 still reported UltraDMA 5. I then
> changed to 40
> >wire cable. Bios now says no 80 wire cable on ide channel 1. Maxtor
> drive now
> >works fine with DaniS506 reporting UltraDMA 2.
> >What I cannot figure out is why it used to work at ATA-100 and now
> not. I hope
> >it wasn't as simple as enabling prefetch mode in bios. However the
> WD 40 gig
> >ATA-100 has no problem with the settings. It is attached on 80 wire
> cable to
> >IDE channel 0, set as CS with DVD/RW slaved to it set as CS. both
> work
> >flawlessly.



	
		
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