[Wizard] 3 new wizards - won't detect HDDs

Craig Ringer [email protected]
Tue Sep 9 13:14:37 2003


Hi folks

I was wondering if anybody else has run into this issue with the Wizard 
boxes: the 3 I have won't detect the HDDs.

When I bought them, the guy removed the hideous one-way screws, reset 
the BIOS, etc, but I didn't think to ask that he boot-test them. Got 
them home, plugged them in, and none would work - it just reports 'None' 
when detecting the primary master.

A quick look inside suggested that he'd placed the ATA cable backwards, 
at least according to the manual. Flipping it caused it to go from 
taking a while (4s?) to report 'None' on the disk interfaces to taking 
about 1/2 a second, but it still won't find the disk.

The disk in the main one I've been testing works fine in my laptop, and 
my laptop disk shows the same problem when placed in the Wizard box. 
It's not the disks, then.

Setting the disk mode manually (to "User,Auto" , "User,LBA") causes a 
"primary disk fail" error, as does setting it to CHS mode with the 
correct settings as printed on the drive.

I'll be bugging the Netway guys tomorrow, but I thought I'd ask to see 
if anybody here had any ideas.

Craig