Why won't my Dragon+ IDE3/4 work?

External Since: Jul 13, 2003 Posts: 2

This is driving me crazy...

Dragon SY-K7V Dragon Plus.

I had a RAID0 array running fine on IDE3/4 and CD-RW and DVD as
masters on IDE1/2. . Was given another hard drive, so thought I'd lose
the RAID and just have IDE1 master, IDE2 master & slave, and swap the
opticals to IDE3/4.

Read the manual, switched the jumpers, set the BIOS - checked it all
20 times, all exactly as per manual. But the opticals are dead. If I
unplug the 40-pin connectors, they 'work' - i.e. lights on, they
eject, but as soon as I plug the connector back in, they're dead. I
know they are ok, because I've just reinstalled XP by having HDD0 as
master on IDE1 and HDD1 master and DVD slave on IDE2.

How the devil can I get IDE3/4 up and running? What am I missing?

Thanks and a pint for anyone who can help.

David.

External Since: Jun 30, 2003 Posts: 22

<dont.email@me> wrote:
> This is driving me crazy...
>
> Dragon SY-K7V Dragon Plus.
>
> I had a RAID0 array running fine on IDE3/4 and CD-RW and DVD as
> masters on IDE1/2. . Was given another hard drive, so thought I'd lose
> the RAID and just have IDE1 master, IDE2 master & slave, and swap the
> opticals to IDE3/4.
>
> Read the manual, switched the jumpers, set the BIOS - checked it all
> 20 times, all exactly as per manual. But the opticals are dead. If I
> unplug the 40-pin connectors, they 'work' - i.e. lights on, they
> eject, but as soon as I plug the connector back in, they're dead. I
> know they are ok, because I've just reinstalled XP by having HDD0 as
> master on IDE1 and HDD1 master and DVD slave on IDE2.
>
> How the devil can I get IDE3/4 up and running? What am I missing?
>
> Thanks and a pint for anyone who can help.
>
> David.

You don't change nothing in BIOS - RAID controller must be enabled. All you
have to do is move the jumper from RADID to IDE.