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post #1 of 15
8/3/04 at 6:48pm
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Greetings all,

I have an 8890 with (0) raided 60 gig 7200 hard drives, and I am currently in the middle of removing my tv card and installing an toshiba 80 gig 5400 hard drive in its place.

Everything went well, and I booted up with the new drive in, windows recognized it, but it would not show up under MY COMPUTER, so I rebooted it to get into the BIOS.

Well, the computer now freezes the second the system stat screen flashes when the computer is first turned on.

I remember reading somewhere around here that you needed to set the disk drive to CABLE SELECT, but I don't know how to do that (except that it is that little bit cover used to cover two of the four pegs on the hard drive). Would this have anything to do with that?

Do I sound like a total noob yet?

I would really appreciate any help you can give me- I have a lot of work to do tonight!

Cheers,

Rakewell
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post #2 of 15
8/3/04 at 7:43pm
Do you have the manual?

Check out Aussie's review of the 8890 and that might provide a clue.
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post #3 of 15
8/3/04 at 7:47pm
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I did, and I figured out alot more than I thought...

It's a master-slave issue. I did the "cable select" the way Aussie described it, and checked the manual, but the bios shows my new drive as master, and I do not know how to change it....

What do you think it is, G-Omaha? I drive shows up in the device manager, but not my computer (I got into windows by removing the drive, rebooting, shutting down, then putting the drive back in).

Thanks,

Rakewell
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post #4 of 15
8/3/04 at 7:52pm
It's probably because it is not partitioned and formatted.

On My Computer ==> Right Click on the Icon ==> Select Manage ==> Select Disk Management (It's under Storage and may need to be expanded) ==> You should see the new device there. If so, then partition it and format it. After this you should be "good to go".
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post #5 of 15
8/3/04 at 7:56pm
That or else check the drive letter. The images at work had a network drive as "F", and the physical zip drive as "E". When people put in a USB card reader, it would not show up because Windows put it as drive "F". Make certain you are actually not using the drive letter Windows assigned your drive. Formatting is good if the drive letter is not conflicting.
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post #6 of 15
8/3/04 at 8:06pm
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Kaine- I have an external 80 gig (not, of course, hooked up at the moment) which uses 'F:'... would that conflict?

G-Omaha- I did what you suggested, found the Toshiba 8026 hard drive, but the new partition field is not highlighted and cannot be accessed when I right click on the drive, and it is listed as "Disk 0" while my 0 raided drives are listed underneath it as "Disk 1"

Did I set the "CABLE SELECT" correctly? (Horizontal on the bottow two pegs of the four, as you hold the drive with the four pegs on your right... Here is the link where I found Aussie's info:

http://notebookforums.com/showthread...7396#post77396

I found nothing in the manual about this, and have searched these forums to death.

any ideas fellas?

Thanks,

Rakewell
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post #7 of 15
8/3/04 at 8:42pm
Sorry, have never done the Cable Select "thing" on a 2.5" drive.
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post #8 of 15
8/4/04 at 8:53am
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OK, figured everything out. I called Toshiba, and it turns out I had to put the jumper on vertically, not horizontally, on the left side of the four-pin part (as you hold the HD with the connector facing you, with the four pegs on the right).

Now it works... however, it seems slow to me. It took damn near 3 hours to transfer 42 gigs from my C: drive to the new HD. Anyone know if this is normal? It's 80 gig 5400 RPM.

Cheers,

Rakewell
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post #9 of 15
8/4/04 at 10:37am
That is slow (about as fast as an 4x DVD Writer). I wonder if the CD-ROM or Optical device has caused the bus to slow down to ATA-1 or ATA-2 Speeds. In the BIOS are there any seting that allow you to select the Bus Speed on the HDD Controller? If so, check to see if the new drive's buss speed is the same as the others. Adjust, if possible.
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post #10 of 15
8/4/04 at 11:29am
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I checked the BIOS but there were no options to select the bus speed... where would it be?

I did notice this on the main BIOS setup screen:

Primary drive: (NONE)
Secondary Drive: (CD-ROM)

I pressed enter on either of them, and I was not allowed to change the settings.

Do I need to reset the BIOS, and will that help? How do I do that?

Thanks

Rakewell
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post #11 of 15
8/4/04 at 1:30pm
I have an 8790 so it is bit different.

Try highlighting the "NONE" and depress enter and see if that gives you another screen.
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post #12 of 15
8/4/04 at 1:36pm
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I did depress "None" and went to the next screen, but would not allow me to change any of the settings.

Anything we can do within windows, or perhaps reset the bios?

Thanks for your help-

Rakewell
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post #13 of 15
8/4/04 at 1:42pm
No - you are stuck. I'll bet it is stuck on ATA-2 speed like mine is (even though I've nothing attached). You might try emailing Sager and ask them if/how this can be changed.
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post #14 of 15
8/4/04 at 1:55pm
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Rats.

So this happened to you to, eh?

I'll ring Sager and see what they say.

Thanks for your help, G-Omaha-

Rakewell
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post #15 of 15
8/4/04 at 1:57pm
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Oh, I forgot... Do you think downloading and installing the "Promise RAID / Ultra ATA Drivers for Windows 2000, XP" from Sager might help?

Thanks,

Rakewell
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