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Need help please with disk recognition problem (modified 0 times) bill Profile Hello, I am unable to get my I-Opener to recognize an 810 Mb IBM laptop drive but it works fine with a 528 Mb Seagate 5.25" drive. I can't find any discussion here or elsewhere of others having any problems with disk recognition. I've buzzed out the laptop cable and it is fine and yes, I have reversed pins 1,2; 3,4; etc. Any ideas? Thanks, Bill 02-23-2002 18:14:39

RE:Need help please with disk recognition problem (modified 0 times) Ragnar1 Profile Have you auto detected the new drive in the bios setup? 02-23-2002 20:52:37

RE:Need help please with disk recognition problem (modified 0 times) bill Profile Yes, IDE was set to AUTO. Also tried it with a USER specification of disk geometry. I should mention that the disk does not even spin up but +5 volts is at the connector pins 41 and 42 as it should be. Bill 02-23-2002 23:04:32

RE:Need help please with disk recognition problem (modified 0 times) Ragnar1 Profile Sounds like a dead hard drive. Have you tried it in any other machine? 02-23-2002 23:12:41

RE:Need help please with disk recognition problem (modified 0 times) bill Profile Yes, the laptop drive spins up in a laptop of the type that I got it from (a Gateway); I also tried another identical drive with the same results. Is it the usual experience that laptop drives just come up and work in the I-Opener without any problems? I'm smelling an initialization problem that may be Gateway specific since the drive does not spinup when power is applied to it in a drive enclosure unrelated to the I-Opener. Thanks, Bill 02-24-2002 08:55:12

RE:Need help please with disk recognition problem (modified 0 times) redwood Profile I have 2 IBM drives that auto-detect, and, 2, that don't, ... they work fine, when I Set the bios.. this has been discussed in detail, but, its been a Long time.. check your model # on IBM site, use the settings they recommend, you should be ok now, IF, there is a startup program on yer HDD, you might need to fdisk it off, I know Nothing of gateway stuff... good luck! 02-24-2002 12:39:29

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