Hard Drive Error Disk or Motherboard?

[Paul Ward]

Thanks guys for the in depth knowledge of ide drives, I had no idea it
made that much difference myself but then I guess that is why I am
having problems.

To throw some more information on the fault, as I said I ended up
using my spare test drive with FC6, this has been a trooper and allows
me to keep working.

I decided to plug the troublesome drive into IDE1 as master, no other
drives were connected and I had the same issues thus I thought proving
the drive was playing up, but then I had the Idea of adding it as a
master of IDE2 and using the test drive as the master IDE1, everything
seems fine, I can mount the troublesome drive and see the data, I can
even read and write to it???? Does this mean my IDE1 controller is at
fault?? if so I guess it must be related to the chipsset / drive make?


On 21/11/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 November 2006 09:41, Tim wrote:
> >Tim:
> >>> IDE/ATA doesn't use termination, SCSI does.
> >
> >Mel:
> >> I don't believe that is true. I believe they both use termination.
> >
> >While from a technical standpoint, there's a standard impedance that
> >loads the line, so it is "terminated".  There's nothing the user does to
> >the drive that changes it.  So I should have said it doesn't have any
> >user-set termination options.
> >
> >Electrically, it doesn't matter whether the master or slave is at the
> >end of the line.  Neither's different in that regard.
>
> Yes it does, only the drive jumpered as a slave has this turned off.  For
> that reason it should always be on the middle connector, with the drive
> set as master on the end.  Yeah you can set it up bass-ackwards.  And
> I'll say we told you so when your data gets fubared.
>
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