Quantum fireball 40 not recognised as master

- Check your cable Hardisk or PIN Hardisk
- listen hardisk when running, if any noise your hardisk must be repair.

SATA (serial ATA) is a connection type, not a brand of hard drive. Any brand of hard drive will replace any other, as long as they are both SATA drives. The data and power connections are standard between drives, as are mounting dimensions. Normally, with SATA drives there are no jumpers or other configuration you need to deal with. Each SATA drive has its own connection to the motherboard, so you don't need to set master/slave jumpers like you would on the parallel ATA drives using the wide data cable.

Jumper settings for Seagate and Maxtor IDE (ATA) harddrives,

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=196299&NewLang=en

Follow the chart examples under the second heading down >

Maxtor (and Quantum) drives follow the jumper configuration noted below.

If I may also add;

1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds1-JmbhGRM

2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwbboeMO7b8&feature=channel

Quantum drives are now supported by Maxtor. See this link for information and diagrams:

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=168019&Hilite=

Maxtor CrystalMax 1080
Maxtor Fireball 531DX Ultra ATA 100
Maxtor DiamondMax 16
Maxtor DiamondMax 1750 Ultra ATA 33
Maxtor DiamondMax 1750A Ultra ATA
Maxtor DiamondMax 17 VL Ultra ATA 66
Maxtor DiamondMax 20 VL Ultra ATA 66
Maxtor DiamondMax 2160 Ultra ATA
Maxtor DiamondMax 2880 Ultra ATA
Maxtor DiamondMax 30 VL Ultra ATA 100
Maxtor DiamondMax 30 VL Ultra ATA 66
Maxtor DiamondMax 3400 Ultra ATA
Maxtor DiamondMax 36 ATA 66
Maxtor DiamondMax 40 ATA 66
Maxtor DiamondMax 40 VL Ultra ATA 100
Maxtor DiamondMax 4320 Ultra ATA
Maxtor DiamondMax 536DX
Maxtor DiamondMax 60 ATA 100
Maxtor DiamondMax 60 ATA 66
Maxtor DiamondMax 6800 Ultra ATA
Maxtor DiamondMax 80 ATA 100
Maxtor DiamondMax D540X-4D
Maxtor DiamondMax D540X-4G
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 2500 Ultra ATA
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 Ultra ATA 100
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 Ultra ATA 66
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 45 Ultra ATA 100
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 5120 Ultra ATA 33
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 5120 Ultra ATA 66
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 60 Ultra ATA 100
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 6800 Ultra ATA 66
Maxtor DiamondMax Ultra ATA




Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8
Maxtor DiamondMax D540X_4K
Maxtor DiamondMax D540X_4L
Maxtor DiamondMax D740X

Maxtor Fireball 541DX
Maxtor Fireball LCT20
Quantum Fireball CR
Quantum Fireball CX
Quantum Fireball EL
Quantum Fireball EX
Quantum Fireball LCT08
Quantum Fireball LCT10
Quantum Fireball LCT15
Quantum Fireball Plus KA
Quantum Fireball Plus KX
Quantum Fireball SE
Quantum Fireball ST
Quantum Fireball LM
Quantum Fireball AS




Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9
Maxtor DiamondMax 10
Maxtor DiamondMax 11
Maxtor DiamondMax 17




Maxtor DiamondMax 20
Maxtor DiamondMax 21

main Dell Optiplex


Slave (cable select)
Quantum Fireball
once you have installed them physically into your comptuer like that, start it up.

Format Quantum Fireball


Now you still have windows xp, and you have a clean 2nd hard drive.

You do not need to install windows xp on the 2nd drive
Quantum Fireball .

The board alone is not available for sale. To recover the data you will need to buy a 20GB Fireball with same board and swap the control board.

You can buy a 20.GB Fireballl QMP20000AS-A from links below:

QUANTUM QMP20000AS-A - Buy Now at Cuetech, Inc.

QMP20000AS-A DELL 20GB 3.5" IDE 7.2K HARD DRIVE

Quantum QMP20000AS-A Fireball Plus 2 QUANTUM FIREBALL PLUS AS 20GB HARD DRIVE QMP20000AS-A -

Here is a picture I found that shows the jumper settings for:
Quantum Fireball CR
Quantum Fireball CX
Quantum Fireball EL
Quantum Fireball EX
Quantum Fireball LCT08
Quantum Fireball LCT10
Quantum Fireball LCT15
Quantum Fireball Plus KA
Quantum Fireball Plus KX
Quantum Fireball SE
Quantum Fireball ST
Quantum Fireball LM
Quantum Fireball AS

http://www.tacktech.com/images/articles/379/mxo_ata_jumpers_2.png

There is normally a sticker on the drive, which indictates the settings.

OK this one is easy.
For the IDE drive, simply make sure the Jumper is set for MASTER, and connct to the END of the ribbon cable.
With the SATA, it is just connect up and go.