[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