9.04 can't find second hard drive.

[Accessys@smart.net]

well the USB - IDE HDD box arrived today and I put the offending drive
in it and still not recognized even though it spun up...

so put another HDD in the box and fired it up, and was immediately
recognized.

seemingly obvious that it is something bad in the electronics of the
HDD......  dead drive.

bummer, not sure if there is easy or inexpensive way to dump the data
from the disks but guess I should resign myself to consider it scrap

thanks to all who tried to help

Bob




On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Mark Haney wrote:

> Shahar Dag wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I can suggest:
> > upgrade the BIOS
> > try to manually specify the HD to the BIOS
>
>
> You know, I'm one of those people who really dislikes recommending
> upgrading the BIOS.  BIOS upgrades can be so finicky, and I've bricked
> more than my fair share of MBs because of crappy BIOS upgrade methods.
>
> That said, I do think, if one is available, I would consider doing it.
> However, after following the thread a little longer (and ignoring Karl's
> silly posts) I still think the drive should be tested on a known working
>  IDE machine to make sure the drive is still good.
>
> To me, upgrading the BIOS is too risky unless we know for sure the IDE
> drive is functional.  If it's not, then a BIOS upgrade would be
> pointless and would risk the MB to no real purpose.
>
>
>
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