Hi,

I have two IDE controllers with three HDs and one CD-RW device connected. I followed Western Digital's instructions for Master/Slave jumper set-up and still get these errors upon booting:

Primary HARD disk drive 1 not found
Secondary hard disk drive 1 not found

Obviously it isn't finding the slaves (1 HD and the CD device).

One HD (at primary 0) and the CD device (at primary 1) are new. The HD works fine. The CD player works, but is CMOS displays UNKNOWN DEVICE.

Is it possible that the not compatible with my 5-y.o. board and therefore causing problems overall? Should I just replace the board?

peergynt

http://www.wdc.com/en/library/eide/2579-001037.pdfwhat i would do is disconnect everthing from the back, turn the power supply switch off, open your case and disconnect all of your ribbon cables from your drives and controllers. Then, for IDE port 1 plug in your CD-RW drive first, then with the second connector on that same ribbon cable plug in your MAIN HD. set the jumpers on CD-RW to master, and HD to slave. Then with IDE port 2and the second cable USE your NEXT, highest priority HD and set that one at Master, then the last one at slave. Clear CMOS and reboot and see if it works.Way too soon to suggest a new computer. It's just confused. Try the above and post back.Thanks sylent,

I just performed a bios update. It cured everything on the primary ide chanels. That means my CD device (primary 1) is now recognized and the OS disk (primary 0) works fine as before.

I'm still struggling with the secondary channels. The master drive (secondary 0) works, but the slave drive (secondary 1) is still having problems.

I'm afraid to swap drives (now s0 and s1) like you suggested because I might mess up the cmos settings again. I know I can purge cmos if necessary, butI want to leave the positions alone for now, if possible.

Gotta think about this for a bit...The bios update helped a bunch. It even seems to have quieted the fan -- I always suspected it was too loud.

Anyway, my primary channels still WORK fine (OS disk and CD). However, I'm having trouble with one of the disks on the secondary controller. Incorrect capacity values keep showing-up in CMOS. For example, it shows 4GB whereas it's acually a 20GB drive.

I've tried attaching that particular drive to both Secondary 0 and Secondary 1, but both positions result in the same values. I cleared CMOS between each CHANGE, removed all cables, etc. Regardless, CmOS always displays the wrong capacity.

Do you think my hd is fried?Quote

... However, I'm having trouble with one of the disks on the secondary controller. Incorrect capacity values keep showing-up in CMOS. For example, it shows 4GB whereas it's acually a 20GB drive. ...