Another strange one.

modo77 · 8 Sep 2006 at 10:40

Hey all,

Got an odd issue with one of my ata hard drives. When I power down my pc (which is a very rare occurance), and power it back up later it doesn't pickup one of my slave drives. A quick reset will resolve this and its all fine.

As I said its not that critical since I never turn my machine off.

Any ideas?

deadeyedic30 · 8 Sep 2006 at 10:47

I'm assuming the jumpers are set correctly or there may be an obvious issue in windows with one not showing. Is the ata cable on the right way and has it come loose ? Can you try a different cable ?

modo77 · 8 Sep 2006 at 10:51

Its not a jumper or cable issue since it will work again without me changing anything. I just give it another reboot and its fine.

Also its not showing in the bios when it fails, not just windows.

TheMightyTen · 8 Sep 2006 at 11:11

modo77 said:
Its not a jumper or cable issue since it will work again without me changing anything. I just give it another reboot and its fine.

Also its not showing in the bios when it fails, not just windows.

Is it an issue with drive spin up time? Is their an option in bios to set the delay for drives to spin up, I know their used to be on some old NF7-S boards.

modo77 · 8 Sep 2006 at 11:22

TheMightyTen said:
Is it an issue with drive spin up time? Is their an option in bios to set the delay for drives to spin up, I know their used to be on some old NF7-S boards.

hmm never seen this option? I'm in work at the min so it'll have to wait until this evening to check.

modo77 · 8 Sep 2006 at 18:58

Nope don't have that option.

SkeeterUK · 8 Sep 2006 at 23:11

A drive sometimes didnt appear when i had 2 hdd and they had the wrong master and slave connectors wrong way around as in on the ide cable itself the end 2 connectors should have been the other way around. I duno why it was like that but it was so i swaped em over and was fine.

Netvyper · 8 Sep 2006 at 23:16

there are also incompatibility issues with certain maxtors/chipsets if I recall...
I cant remember the specifics, but if you have maxtor disks it might be worth putting the models & your chipset into google

modo77 · 9 Sep 2006 at 12:03

SkeeterPSA said:
A drive sometimes didnt appear when i had 2 hdd and they had the wrong master and slave connectors wrong way around as in on the ide cable itself the end 2 connectors should have been the other way around. I duno why it was like that but it was so i swaped em over and was fine.

Pretty sure its on the correct way, i'll double check when I get in from work.

Netvyper said:
there are also incompatibility issues with certain maxtors/chipsets if I recall...
I cant remember the specifics, but if you have maxtor disks it might be worth putting the models & your chipset into google

Think its an ibm and nikomi drive, but again I'll check later...

Cheers

J.T · 9 Sep 2006 at 12:09

I had this happen once when my PSU was on the way out, and it to would be fixed by a power reset, replaced my PSU and problem went away.

Not saying you have the same issue, but gives you one more thing to look at

modo77 · 9 Sep 2006 at 14:01

J.T said:
I had this happen once when my PSU was on the way out, and it to would be fixed by a power reset, replaced my PSU and problem went away.

Not saying you have the same issue, but gives you one more thing to look at

i'd hop not its an £80 ocz 600mhz one, and only a year old :eek:

modo77 · 13 Sep 2006 at 11:50

Finally had chance to look, the cables are on the correct way around, and I've got a seagate Barracuda and a nikomi. So its not the maxtor issue. Also tried another psu and its still doing the same.