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post #21 of 36
8/23/03 at 7:07pm
Myrkat can levitate? WoW! That must come with the 72 virgins and all that other stuff. Maybe I'll have to give his press releases more consideration from now on.

Does levitation interfere with installing hard drives? I mean, how do you hold still? And can you pick stuff up without "sinking"?

Man, forget a new 8890, I want levitation!!!
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post #22 of 36
12/12/03 at 12:17pm
Myrkat,

Thanks for the instructions - I have followed it to the tee and my hard drive is now recognised and working fine.... however my CDRW now isnt recognised in Windows - do I need to select one as master and one slave? (I cant see this on the BIOS)

Thanks
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post #23 of 36
12/12/03 at 2:00pm
Thread Starter 
The newly-added hard drive should be set to cable select... Technically, the second media bay (towards the hinges) is the SLAVE of the second IDE channel (the primary media bay being the master).

Set your jumpers on the HD to cable select and see if that works. If not, set it to slave, then master (trying each).

-myrkat
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post #24 of 36
12/12/03 at 2:05pm
Brilliant thanks for the help

Unfortunately the cleaner (at work) threw away my jumper thing!

Would you recommend the 2nd hd or the CDRW/DVD and master?
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post #25 of 36
12/12/03 at 2:20pm
Thread Starter 
I'm not sure I follow you. Would I recommend a 2nd HD only vs. having the CDRW/DVD? I believe the CDRW/DVD is set up for Cable Select already, so it's Master right now. When you added the second drive, it's probably set for master and thus the conflict (best guess). The cleaner tossed out your jumper? These aren't too hard to come by - find a computer geek and ask if they have any spares.

-myrkat
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post #26 of 36
12/12/03 at 2:33pm
Thanks

Last last last question! The jumper - is it the same size as a standard hard drive jumper?
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post #27 of 36
12/12/03 at 2:36pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chrisp7
Thanks

Last last last question! The jumper - is it the same size as a standard hard drive jumper?
Yes, all jumpers are of a standard size.

-myrkat
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post #28 of 36
12/13/03 at 9:12pm
Theres no option for a second internal drive on a 5680 right? I will probably eat right through 60gb pretty fast.
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post #29 of 36
12/15/03 at 5:20am
Thread Starter 
No, you can have a second hard drive in the removable bay slot - but it takes up the removable bay slot... If you need 2 batteries, kiss the 2nd HD goodbye... but if you don't need the extra battery, then a second HD option is available (though it's removable)... you could get several brackets/bays and have several HD's - which may be an expensive "plus"...

-myrkat
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post #30 of 36
12/19/03 at 5:31am
I installed a toshiba 80 gig drive. It is working in windows but the bios is only showing a 14 gig drive.

Do I need a bios update?

What is the latest bios?


Update:
I went from the r3.05a.128 to the r3.06a.128 and the bios displays the correct size for the 80g drive.
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post #31 of 36
4/13/04 at 4:14pm
If I install a 7200 HDD and mirror my old drive onto it, will I have to physically switch the 7200 to the main bay to make it my boot drive? Will I have to switch the drives in the mounts or will the mounts swap between bays?

Thanks for your help.

Mike
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post #32 of 36
6/1/04 at 2:16am

8886 / 8887 2nd hard drive add-on

I hope this doesn't get me in trouble but if anyone needs the 5400 rpm 80 gig drives, I can sell them for $240 each. I sell alot of gadgets and computer parts, but thats not why I'm posting.

I need help with my 2nd harddrive addon. I just replaced my primary drive with an 80 gig, and I got the 2nd drive bracket and moved my original 40 gig to the auxiliary slot.

Both drives are working fine but now I have lost access to my dvd/cdrw drive. What did I do wrong?

Sorry but I'm new to laptops, and this sager 8886 was my first, so if I sound like a noob, that's why. :/

-Adonyx
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post #33 of 36
6/1/04 at 1:06pm
Cable Select Settings??? Check that they are set to the proper settings for the dual drive configuration.
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post #34 of 36
6/11/04 at 4:51pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Adonyx
I hope this doesn't get me in trouble but if anyone needs the 5400 rpm 80 gig drives, I can sell them for $240 each. I sell alot of gadgets and computer parts, but thats not why I'm posting.

I need help with my 2nd harddrive addon. I just replaced my primary drive with an 80 gig, and I got the 2nd drive bracket and moved my original 40 gig to the auxiliary slot.

Both drives are working fine but now I have lost access to my dvd/cdrw drive. What did I do wrong?

Sorry but I'm new to laptops, and this sager 8886 was my first, so if I sound like a noob, that's why. :/

-Adonyx
I'm having almost the same problem as you with my 8887. I've installed my 2nd hard drive and enabled it in the BIOS(both are toshiba 80GB 4200RPM drives) and the BIOS recognizes it as drive E. The problem is it now takes Windows XP Pro about 20 minutes to boot up and the DVD drive is disabled (i set it as drive H) and I can't format the 2nd hard drive becuase Disk Management will not recognize it. Is it something I have to do in BIOS to make windows xp recognize both my dvd and new hard drive? Any help will be appreaciated.
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post #35 of 36
6/11/04 at 5:15pm
ONE possibility.

EDIT: Google on "dvd drive not recognized" for others.
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post #36 of 36
5/20/05 at 5:10pm

Sager 8880/G Spare Parts

A site to link to for a harddrive, hd bracket or anything else is:Click to View Used 8880/E . Good luck.
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