PeterD wrote:
On Thu, 13 May 2010 12:53:11 -0700, "David Farber"
wrote:



Sorry if the description wasn't clear. Let me try to list the chain
of events.

1. Pc works fine with Seagate drive as master drive on first IDE
channel.
2. Installed another hard drive to test as master on secondary
channel.
3. Pc freezes while trying to list attached drives. Cannot access
bios screen.
4. I remove the drive on the secondary channel.
5. At some point I think I was able to get into the bios menu after
removing the test drive but at that point, it indicated no drive was
present.
6. After a couple of more tries, I cannot get to the bios menu
anymore.
7. I tried different jumper settings on the Seagate drive and
clearing the CMOS. This didn't solve the problem.
8. Substituted another drive just to see if the Seagate drive was
causing the problem. No problems with a different drive installed.
Drive is recognized properly.


Still not really clear... #1 above says the computer works OK with the
Seagate drive.
#7 says it doesn't work OK with the Seagate drive.

I'd think you have a bad cable, or you broke the drive.

BTW, you can't 'swap' the controller cards between drives, the NV ram
on the controller is programmed to the drive itself.

Good call about the "broken" drive. I broke it moving it around. See my post
a little way down the list.

Thanks for your reply.
--
David Farber
David Farber's Service Center
L.A., CA