Weird hardware issue

[Guest]

I'm running an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard with Windows 2000 SP4

I have enabled 48-bit addressing in the registry and the motherboard
also supports 48-bit addressing.

I have a maxtor 80GB drive as the primary master and a PlexWriter
CD-RW as the primary slave. I have 2 Maxtor 200GB drives on the
secondary IDE port. I also have a Maxtor 200GB drive as an external
USB/Firewire drive. The secondary master drive works fine, the OS sees
it as a 200GB drive and it's formatted as an NTFS volume. The
USB/Firewire connected drive works as well and it also is an NTFS
volume. The only problem I have is that W2K wont see the 200GB slave
on the secondary port. I take the drive out and put it as the slave on
the primary IDE port and the same thing happens, however, if I plug it
in using the USB interface, it works fine. I am using an 80 conductor
ATA133 cable on the secondary IDE port.

I have installed the latest nVIDIA IDE drivers and I have the latest
BIOS update that I know of (1009). The drives are certified on the
Windows HCL (Maxtor 6Y200L0). But the drive just wont work as a slave
on either port. In the device manager it just sits there with the
yellow exclamation point across the device and give me the message
that I need to restart the computer to get it to work properly (Code
14).

Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

jumper setting on HD?

 

[Chris]

Jumper settings are master/slave. I've checked them several times. I
tried Cable Select as well, but that didn't work. The BIOS sees the
drives as they should be. It's a Windows issue.

 

[Jim Miller]

Lets see. All your drives work fine except one. And it works if it is
put on a different controller. Sorry but that isn't a Windows problem.
There is something wrong either with the hardware config or the
firmware on that drive. Try it as master and see if it works.

David

 

[Dan Seur]

If I've read the thread posts as of now correctly, that drive
won't work as a slave anywhere (I'm assuming it isn't jumpered
as slave on the firewire connection).

If that's the case, you might have a broken jumper, a broken
lead on the drive from a jumper post, or some other setting-
related problem on the drive. Try a different jumper; try as
was suggested running it as a master on the secondary IDE.

Depending on results, discuss with Maxtor tech support. At
the very least get a downloadable drive diagnostic from them
that can look at the drive thoroughly. The tech support people
if the problem can't be solved easily will offer a replacement
drive on a swap basis. Have them ship the replacement to you
first; them check it out, move whatever you may need off the
problem drive to the new one, and use the Maxtor shipping
materials to send the problem drive to them. You'll pay only
a few $ for ground shipping of the drive you're returning.

If I've misunderstood, and that drive actually works as slave
on your primary IDE controller but not on the secondary, then
you have a mobo problem.