** Reply to message from rallee2{at}comcast.net on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:49:27 +0000

> Apologies if I'm stating the obvious 

None needed I appreciate all the help I get, reiterating the basics is always a
good idea.

>    1) Check carefully the diagram for jumper setup especially if/when 2 drives
> are present since many drives will operate singly as either
"master" or
> "single" but have a different arrangement special to
"slave present".

I double checked and also printed out the online info sheets for the drive to
make sure.
 
>    2) The 80 wire cable is important and going to be needed at the very least
> eventually... why not now?  Eliminate the issue.

This is my next step, will take a few days to get one.
    
>   3) Make sure power connectors make full contact. ie: feel the hdd 
drive case or listen to verify spinup.

I can feel the drive spinup and warm up .

>   4) Some older bios's (cmos setup) arrangements had a subsection
entitled "IDE
> Detection" where upon enetering each of 4 units would be
autodetected.t to and
> I would have certainly turned off any IDE entries if I had an all SCSI system.

I have all 4 set to "auto" though I also tried custom LBA. The
BIOS puts out a
message that it is scanning for devices then outputs "none".

>  5) I'd like to know if you have any other IDE devices such as a DVD or CDROM
> and are they detected?  Some bioses need (or allow) to be set to
"none" for
> cdroms while others require "auto" or "cdrom". 
Hard drives cannot be left at
> "none". 
No other IDE devices.
 
>    Incidentally I would not set jumpers to report in
"smaller" or "translation"
> mode.  A 2003 bios should detect even a 250G drive set normally and it'll run
> better in "normal" arrangement.  Unless there's some defect
in the IDE system a
> pci card will not likely solve your problem sine it shouldn't be needed, merely
> duplicating what you have with the only advantage being all ide drives on a
> card only take up one (1) irq, whereas onboard takes up two (2).  Again this
> should not be an obstacle for a 2003 bios with your era mobo.

I initially tried without the "smaller" jumper and only installed
that jumper
after the initial attempts failed.

Now I'm going to get the 80 wire and see where that gets me. I'll let you know
either way.

-- 
Andre


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