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twoten

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 1:27 am
Post subject: tuv4x won't see 80gig drive at boot
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My client brought me a tuv4x with a crashed Fujitsu drive and I directed
her to buy a Western Digital WD800JB 80gig drive to replace it. She did
and I installed the drive as primary master on an 80 wire cable.

Bios was 1002 which correctly identified the drive during cmos setup but
failed to detect the drive after the post and reported "primary master
drive fails". So I flashed the bios to the newer 1005 but still the same
thing: in setup the drive is recognized, at bootup it fails.

I even pulled the drive, put it into a different box and ran fdisk on it
to create a primary partition. My ecs K7S5A has no problems with this
drive. I scoured the tuv4x user manual but there is no mention of
anything special. Any help will be greatly appreciated!


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twoten

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 8:31 am
Post subject: Re: tuv4x won't see 80gig drive at boot - FIXED [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Out of caprice (and desperation) I tried setting the drive jumper to
slave and it works just fine. Looks like that primary master ide channel
is bad, perhaps the Fujitsu drive took it down with it ...


twoten wrote:
 > My client brought me a tuv4x with a crashed Fujitsu drive and I directed
 > her to buy a Western Digital WD800JB 80gig drive to replace it. She did
 > and I installed the drive as primary master on an 80 wire cable.
 >
 > Bios was 1002 which correctly identified the drive during cmos setup but
 > failed to detect the drive after the post and reported "primary master
 > drive fails". So I flashed the bios to the newer 1005 but still the same
 > thing: in setup the drive is recognized, at bootup it fails.
 >
 > I even pulled the drive, put it into a different box and ran fdisk on it
 > to create a primary partition. My ecs K7S5A has no problems with this
 > drive. I scoured the tuv4x user manual but there is no mention of
 > anything special. Any help will be greatly appreciated!
 >
 >
 > 210<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:17 am
Post subject: Re: tuv4x won't see 80gig drive at boot [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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In article <u5a4c.54349$Fg7.453544100@news.nnrp.ca>, twoten
<billgates DeleteThis @microsoft.com> wrote:

 > My client brought me a tuv4x with a crashed Fujitsu drive and I directed
 > her to buy a Western Digital WD800JB 80gig drive to replace it. She did
 > and I installed the drive as primary master on an 80 wire cable.
 >
 > Bios was 1002 which correctly identified the drive during cmos setup but
 > failed to detect the drive after the post and reported "primary master
 > drive fails". So I flashed the bios to the newer 1005 but still the same
 > thing: in setup the drive is recognized, at bootup it fails.
 >
 > I even pulled the drive, put it into a different box and ran fdisk on it
 > to create a primary partition. My ecs K7S5A has no problems with this
 > drive. I scoured the tuv4x user manual but there is no mention of
 > anything special. Any help will be greatly appreciated!
 >
 >
 > 210

Have you tested with the secondary IDE interface ? Maybe one of the
two interfaces is fried. Options would be to replace the TUV4X
if the warranty is still good. Otherwise, get a Promise IDE
controller card and host the drives off that instead. I use
one of those in my P4B, because it was bundled with a Maxtor
drive I bought a couple of years ago. It could also be the
cable that is at fault. Also, WD drives are known to like
"cable select" mode, and that is another option to try.

HTH,
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Stephan Grossklass

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:34 pm
Post subject: Re: tuv4x won't see 80gig drive at boot - FIXED [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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twoten schrieb:
 >
 > Out of caprice (and desperation) I tried setting the drive jumper to
 > slave and it works just fine. Looks like that primary master ide channel
 > is bad, perhaps the Fujitsu drive took it down with it ...

Nope. WD drives distinguish between Master and Single jumper settings...
I bet the drive would also work fine when jumpered as Single.

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 3:51 am
Post subject: Re: tuv4x won't see 80gig drive at boot [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Two TUV's in-house with WD's 80's and no problems.....
Just set as masters.....up to date on the BIOS's though

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:17:05 -0500, nospam DeleteThis @needed.com (Paul) wrote:

 >In article <u5a4c.54349$Fg7.453544100@news.nnrp.ca>, twoten
 ><billgates DeleteThis @microsoft.com> wrote:
 >
  >> My client brought me a tuv4x with a crashed Fujitsu drive and I directed
  >> her to buy a Western Digital WD800JB 80gig drive to replace it. She did
  >> and I installed the drive as primary master on an 80 wire cable.
  >>
  >> Bios was 1002 which correctly identified the drive during cmos setup but
  >> failed to detect the drive after the post and reported "primary master
  >> drive fails". So I flashed the bios to the newer 1005 but still the same
  >> thing: in setup the drive is recognized, at bootup it fails.
  >>
  >> I even pulled the drive, put it into a different box and ran fdisk on it
  >> to create a primary partition. My ecs K7S5A has no problems with this
  >> drive. I scoured the tuv4x user manual but there is no mention of
  >> anything special. Any help will be greatly appreciated!
  >>
  >>
  >> 210
 >
 >Have you tested with the secondary IDE interface ? Maybe one of the
 >two interfaces is fried. Options would be to replace the TUV4X
 >if the warranty is still good. Otherwise, get a Promise IDE
 >controller card and host the drives off that instead. I use
 >one of those in my P4B, because it was bundled with a Maxtor
 >drive I bought a couple of years ago. It could also be the
 >cable that is at fault. Also, WD drives are known to like
 >"cable select" mode, and that is another option to try.
 >
 >HTH,
 > Paul<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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