ST310211A fail

[Thomas Jollans]

I bought a seagate 10giga hard drive st310211a from ebay (not used) and
tried to build it into my PC. All tries failed. I tried it alone on an
IDE channel (both master, slave AND cable select), with my CD ROM and
with my other seagate hdd(40gb) alone the bios didn't recognize it and
with manual config it said fail. together with another drive both
weren't recognized. my mothermoard is: ASUS P4T-M BIOS Revision 1002
MEDIONPC. Has anyone got a sugestion? Or has someone else had this
problem? Will a BIOS update from ASUS help? Is there something wrong
with the disk?

Thanks in advance,
Thomas Jollans

 

[Mr. Slow]

I bought a seagate 10giga hard drive st310211a from ebay (not used) and
tried to build it into my PC. All tries failed. I tried it alone on an
IDE channel (both master, slave AND cable select), with my CD ROM and
with my other seagate hdd(40gb) alone the bios didn't recognize it and
with manual config it said fail. together with another drive both
weren't recognized. my mothermoard is: ASUS P4T-M BIOS Revision 1002
MEDIONPC. Has anyone got a sugestion? Or has someone else had this
problem? Will a BIOS update from ASUS help? Is there something wrong
with the disk?

Thanks in advance,
Thomas Jollans

It sounds as if your drive is faulty. With brand new, warranted hard drive
prices at an all-time low, I fail to understand why anyone buys this sort of
stuff on e bay.

 

[S.Heenan]

I bought a seagate 10giga hard drive st310211a from ebay (not used)
and tried to build it into my PC. All tries failed. I tried it alone
on an IDE channel (both master, slave AND cable select), with my CD
ROM and with my other seagate hdd(40gb) alone the bios didn't
recognize it and with manual config it said fail. together with
another drive both weren't recognized. my mothermoard is: ASUS P4T-M
BIOS Revision 1002 MEDIONPC. Has anyone got a sugestion? Or has
someone else had this problem? Will a BIOS update from ASUS help? Is
there something wrong with the disk?

Set the BIOS to auto-detect the hard drive. Jumper it as Master and place it
on the end of the IDE ribbon. See if it isn't recognized by the BIOS. You
can also try it in another PC. Run the Seatools diagnostic suite from a
floppy.
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/

 

[the gnome]

I bought a seagate 10giga hard drive st310211a from ebay (not used) and
tried to build it into my PC. All tries failed. I tried it alone on an
IDE channel (both master, slave AND cable select), with my CD ROM and
with my other seagate hdd(40gb) alone the bios didn't recognize it and
with manual config it said fail. together with another drive both
weren't recognized. my mothermoard is: ASUS P4T-M BIOS Revision 1002
MEDIONPC. Has anyone got a sugestion? Or has someone else had this
problem? Will a BIOS update from ASUS help? Is there something wrong
with the disk?

Thanks in advance,
Thomas Jollans

If the BIOS isn't seeing it then it may be a dead disk.

When you turn the power on does it spin up and click as it goes through its
self-test.

the_gnome

 

[Jim Strand]

I bought a seagate 10giga hard drive st310211a from ebay (not used) and
tried to build it into my PC. All tries failed. I tried it alone on an
IDE channel (both master, slave AND cable select), with my CD ROM and
with my other seagate hdd(40gb) alone the bios didn't recognize it and
with manual config it said fail. together with another drive both
weren't recognized. my mothermoard is: ASUS P4T-M BIOS Revision 1002
MEDIONPC. Has anyone got a sugestion? Or has someone else had this
problem? Will a BIOS update from ASUS help? Is there something wrong
with the disk?

Thanks in advance,
Thomas Jollans

Check you jumper settings selection to see if there is a setting for
single drive no slave present. Or perhaps non-ATA slave. Are you
using a 40 pin or 80 pin ribbon cable? If 80 try using one of the
older 40 pin variety.

Sounds dumb but be sure the jumpers are in the correct sequence.

www.seagate.com/support/disc/manuals/ata/u5pmb01.pdf

 

[Crooked-Ridez]

I wonder how much you paid for that little 10 gig?...Good (bigger) HD's are
so cheap today.
E-bay is the worst place for computer hardware, besides pricewatch of course