TXP4 and Maxtor ATA 40GB hard drive

[Peter]

Having a problem trying to install a new ATA 40 GB hard Drive
I have installed a 60 GB Western Digital Drive although the Board only
recognized 40 GB
However I have a new MAxtor DaiamondMax Plus 8 40 GB drive brand new
which has not been partioned or formatted. No fdisk has been run as
yet.
The reason is that every time i connect the drive either as master or
slave the computer hangs on the first post which sys initializing PNP
hardware then it saye Initialization complete and the cursor blinks.
If I go into BIOS and then to auto detect hard drive it starts the
Checking Primar Master and wont go any further and the operation is
frozen and I have to turn the power offf.
The small leaflet provided says that if the system hangs on startup
verify that the system is ATA/100 compatible with the udma mode
setting. Some Legacy BIOS cause hangs on startup or orther problems if
not ATA/100 compatible.
Question is
IS this a legacy BIOS?
IS the system ATA compatible?
IT did run a western Digital ATA
Any info appreciated.

 

[Paul]

Having a problem trying to install a new ATA 40 GB hard Drive
I have installed a 60 GB Western Digital Drive although the Board only
recognized 40 GB
However I have a new MAxtor DaiamondMax Plus 8 40 GB drive brand new
which has not been partioned or formatted. No fdisk has been run as
yet.
The reason is that every time i connect the drive either as master or
slave the computer hangs on the first post which sys initializing PNP
hardware then it saye Initialization complete and the cursor blinks.
If I go into BIOS and then to auto detect hard drive it starts the
Checking Primar Master and wont go any further and the operation is
frozen and I have to turn the power offf.
The small leaflet provided says that if the system hangs on startup
verify that the system is ATA/100 compatible with the udma mode
setting. Some Legacy BIOS cause hangs on startup or orther problems if
not ATA/100 compatible.
Question is
IS this a legacy BIOS?
IS the system ATA compatible?
IT did run a western Digital ATA
Any info appreciated.

Have you tried the "limit" jumper ? An ATA drive should have
a jumper position, which limits or clips capacity to 32GB. That
means you may need a jumper other than the one that sets
master/slave/cable select. Look up your drive's jumper settings,
either on the drive label itself, or visit the maxtor.com
web site and look it up there.

HTH,
Paul

 

[Peter]

Have you tried the "limit" jumper ? An ATA drive should have
a jumper position, which limits or clips capacity to 32GB. That
means you may need a jumper other than the one that sets
master/slave/cable select. Look up your drive's jumper settings,
either on the drive label itself, or visit the maxtor.com
web site and look it up there.

HTH,
Paul

THe manual does show a limiter jumper and i thought I had tried that
before. What puzzles me is why just plugging a cable in to a hard
drive would stop the boot sequence so that it does not show the pnp
card found and stops the floppy drive from operating.
Do you think a limiter would really help there ?
I have booted the system over 20 times now so will wait ill i have a
few more suggestions to try. Thanks anyway
Also there is a subtle difference in the jumper settings shown on the
drive and those shown on the leaflet.
Oh Welll

 

[Peter]

Have you tried the "limit" jumper ? An ATA drive should have
a jumper position, which limits or clips capacity to 32GB. That
means you may need a jumper other than the one that sets
master/slave/cable select. Look up your drive's jumper settings,
either on the drive label itself, or visit the maxtor.com
web site and look it up there.

HTH,
Paul

Thanks again Paul, I rechecked the instructions for the limiter and
the frrezing problem stopped and the BIOS recognized the 32 meg
limited drive and all went ok from there.