Chuck said:
I recently installed an LG DVD drive into my Dell Dimension E310.
On restart I got a message that said several of the drives were not found.
It gave me the option of going into setup where I reset everything to
the default settings. I am also able to continue on by pressing F1(or F2)
(can't remember which one) and it will run the computer.
When I go into "My Computer" it does not show the "a" drive or the CD
or DVD drives.
As it stands now, when the computer starts up I get two beeps and the
following message
Drive 2 not found: PATA-0(PRI IDE MASTER) and
Drvie 3 not found: PATA-1(PRI IDE SLAVE).
The Boot Sequence of setup shows the boot sequence of
1. On Board or USB Floppy Drive (not present)
2. On Board SATA Hard drive
3. On Board IDE Hard Drive (not present)
4.On Board or USB CD-ROM Drive (not present)
5. USB Device.
Also in setup there is a place to check the "status" of the drives
these are set as follows:
Diskette set to "USB",
SATA-0 is "on",
SATA-2 is "off",
PATA-0 is "on",
PATA-1 is "on" and
SATA ops is "RAID Autodetect/ATA".
I have also tried several combinations of the slave switch
(not sure if all possible have been tried) and nothing seems
to work. One last point is that there are power wires with a
connector labeled P7 inside that are not connected to anything
but it doesn't look like there is anything to connect it to.
The P8 and P9 wiring are connected to the CD and DVD drives
for power.
Anything I can do? All help is greatly appreciated!
P7 is a floppy connector. P8 and P9 are Molex power for
hard drive or optical drive.
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim3100/en/sm/techov0.htm
You need a "Y" cable, at one time available at RadioShack. Connect
one end to P8 or P9, and the other end of the "Y" gives you two
connectors to work with. Thus, one power source from the power
supply, becomes two connections for hard drives or optical
drives. Startech refers to the connector type as "LP4",
while in the newsgroups, this might be called a Molex.
This picture shows what you want. Makes two power sources,
from one power source.
http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimage/12-201-006-02.jpg
For your new optical drive to work, it needs a power connection.
So that is the first problem you have to solve. It has to be
powered at least.
Once you have power connected to the drive, then it makes sense
to connect a data cable. I assume the drive is IDE type, and
has a ribbon cable interface.
A ribbon cable has two drive end connectors. When connecting two drives
to the cable, one is "Master" and the other one "Slave". The
drives can be jumpered that way. Sometimes you have to download
info from a web page to figure it out. Or the jumper info
is shown on the body of the drive somewhere.
In prebuilt computers, an alternative is called "Cable Select".
That leaves the job of determining Master and Slave, up to the
design of the cable. For 80 wire cables, they have a mod to the
cable, to make one connector Master and the other one Slave.
So in that case, both drives can be jumpered for "Cable Select".
For the assemblers at Dell, it is easiest to just jumper
everything the same way (Cable Select), and let the ribbon
cable do the thinking for them. If the existing drive is
jumpered Cable Select, then your new optical can share the
cable if it is also jumpered Cable Select.
So once you've sorted your powering issue, and verified the
jumper settings of the two things connected to the same
IDE ribbon cable, you should find a change of symptoms.
For more info -
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/conf.htm
HTH,
Paul
