Unrecognisable''slave'' HD

Hi you guys have trawled postings but no find.. Friend has 2 HD's 20 Gig ?60 gig ''Dekstar'' this one will not be recognised as slave, put it to master and ok, have tried many times with different jumpers but to no avail , me finks that slave jumper is damaged inside,?? any ideas please..when put to master (as have had to put OS on there as well,) all runs smoothly..

Asrock KMV2
AMD 2000+
512 DDR
and all the other gubbins

 

When you run the suspect drive as master can you run the other drive as slave
When you try to use it as slave, have you got the master at the end of the cable and the slave in the middle

 

Phew thanks for swift reply yes red ribbon in correct position.. Do you mean try another HD (taking out the old 20 gig) and putting alongside the ''Dekstar'' 60 GIg.. the 20 gig HD is quite old I believe ...

 

Hi again general.. yes had tried that at one stage and it made no difference, i just spoke to the friend and he says not to worry as he is satisfied with the way it is but its still bugging me lol..

 

Exactly. That would test the secondary position on the IDE cable, and make sure the slave is live, regardless of the drive. If nothing works on that, you've likely got a defective IDE cable, although there's a slim possibility that the motherboard BIOS itself isn't recognizing the drives.

With any drive in the slave position, does the BIOS recognize the drive at all? Or does it not see a drive at that location. Run "autodetect" for the slave and see if it finds one. If not, but the master is fine, I suspect a bad cable.

[edit] Just saw your last post. I suspect a bad cable.

 

Thanks GT will try that ribbon tip out and let you know the result within a couple of days as have to travel accross town to get to friends... (no its not that big a town)