I have main HD as primary & 2nd HD as primary slave on first channel.
I have DVD/ READER/WRITER as primary on second channel and cannot get the "Plus 9" to work as secondary slave. PC will not see Plus 9 in this position. If I remove the DVD unit and only run the Plus 9, the PC will see it, but only at 33gb.
Regards,
Barry
Sydney Australia.
Hi,
Two thing,
First, never use a Maxtor HDD as a slave to a CDROM/DVD, doesn't work and tends to cause stability issues. So try swapping the jumper on the CD/DVD to slave and setting the Maxtor to Master, this should get it working.
Second, if it is showing up as 33GB, you have the Jumpers set to limit capacity(designed to avoid troubles on older systems. If this is the case, you likely have a single jumper in the center row of pins between the power and data cables. If it only works as master at the moment, then you likely have the neter row(limit size pins) and the one closest to the data cable(Master Pin) both plugged in.
Change your DVD/CD to slave, remove the limiting jumper and ensure the Master jumper is installed on the Maxtor, then be sure the end connector on the ATA(likely marked master) is plugged into the Maxtor and the middle connector(Slave) is plugged into the DVD/CD, this should have you all fixed up.
Hope this helps FixYa,
Chris
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Hi,
I don't know the model, but it's a Gigabyte board.
OS HD is 80GB
1st removable HD ( in slide rack ) is 20GB
2nd removable HD ( in slide rack ) is 80GB ( Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9)
I only got the PC recently, from a friend. It's about 4-5 years old.
Thank you.
Barry.
What is the make and model of your motherboard?
what are the sizes of the other hard drives?
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