setting up a hard drive

[dani82]

i just purchased a 300gb seagate hard, after about 5 hours of partitioning and deleting partitions back and forth, i'd encounter a failed diagnostic test, so i had to get it replace (under a extended warranty), after about 25mins of convincing 3 members of the return department that my warranty is not a 1 time only piece-of-crap, they decided to called their supervisor for a 4th opinion, and it seems i was right

getting to the point:

it seems the failed diagnostic test was human error (somewhat), the problem was due to the master/slave pin setting, after about 20 possible pin configuration, the problem seems... to be still there

point:

can someone tell me how to configure my pins setting for my hard drives

seagate 300gb (master)
western digitial 200gb (slave)

currently my only option to prevent the error is to isolate the drive to its own IDE cable (meaning no slave allowed)

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if anybody wants to know what the error is: AtaCore Error 11 in Identify

[CWR03]

You should be able to set them both to cable select and just plug in and go, however some cheaper cables may not work with cable select. You'll need one that has a blue plug for the motherboard and black and gray ones for the drives.

The error means the drive has failed to identify itself properly. Make sure your motherboard has all IDE's set to auto-identify, or go in and identify them manually. One or more could be set to User and is improperly identified. When you identify you can tell which is a hard drive by values in the Cylinder, Sector, etc., and you can reset those to User.

It would also help to know your OS, whether or not this drive is used on a RAID controller, and exactly at what point you get the error message of "AtaCore Error 11 in Identify."

[dani82]

okay, i set both drives to cable select, and the error's gone

it's seem the problem was beyond the jumpers; the error message only disappeared once i'd loaded an OS to the master drive (seagate)

Winme (please, just don't say it)
promise ultra 100
the message appear right at the beginning of the test

[CWR03]

I'm glad you got it figured out. I would like to say, though, that the Promise RAID is pretty sluggish compared to pretty much all others.

If WinME is what works for you, I wouldn't say anything. I stuck with 98 until I absolutely had to upgrade - I still hate XP. Too "dumbed down" for me.

[writersblock29]

@CWR03

It's "dumbed down," alright... until you have to turn into a programming expert to figure out the spyware, dialers, trojans, and other crap that infest your computer trying to use your internet access out-of-the-box! I think I learned more about computers while using XP (which I'm still using) than I ever HAD to know while running Windows ME. Perhaps that's why we paid so much for XP... isn't education supposed to be expensive? :p

Cheers!