System haulting

DiskDoc · Post by **DiskDoc** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 1:55 pm

what's a good cause for a system to display "Detecting IDE Hard drive" and hault when it's first booted up?

JTMON · Post by **JTMON** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 7:05 pm

well lately I've had this issue with Western Digital drives where they plainly say Master on one of the jumpers and there is nothing on the top of the drive to say to leave the jumper off if the drive is single, but lo and behold, if it IS a single drive, and I remove the jumper all together, IT STOPS HANGING LIKE THAT.

STUPID WD!!

Besides that? The drive is going or has gone bad. Prolly other stuff that I can't think of.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Dec 16, 2003 8:24 am

Originally posted by JTMON
well lately I've had this issue with Western Digital drives where they plainly say Master on one of the jumpers and there is nothing on the top of the drive to say to leave the jumper off if the drive is single, but lo and behold, if it IS a single drive, and I remove the jumper all together, IT STOPS HANGING LIKE THAT.

STUPID WD!!

Besides that? The drive is going or has gone bad. Prolly other stuff that I can't think of.

WD makes good drives, most need 2 jumpers to set it to master, going without jumpers is Cable Select I believe which is cool too.

Annalysa · Post by **Annalysa** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 11:18 am

thanks yos, i am gonna try the cable select thing now

JTMON · Post by **JTMON** » Wed Dec 17, 2003 7:05 pm

Hmm, out of the 5 new WD drives I have, none require two jumpers, it's on one set of jumpers for CS, one if you want Master WITH a slave and no jumpers to enable single master.. That's the normal way I am used to with their drives, thing is, two or three of the drives have different jumper settings, but none show two jumpers. I've seen ones that do need two jumpers though. Three of these are 120JBs, one is a 40GB and one is the 80GB SE.