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From: Folkert Rienstra on 20 Jan 2008 19:03
mscotgrove(a)aol.com wrote in
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> On Jan 20, 11:09 am, Gilles Ganault <nos...(a)nospam.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:17:27 +1100, "Rod Speed"
> >
> > <rod.speed....(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The first thing to check is that it is a viable 2.5" drive.One way
> > > to do that is to see if it will work in one of the
> > > external cases that are designed to take 2.5" drives.
> >
> > I don't have this kind of external case, so no way to check that the
> > drive is OK :-/
> >
> > > You should also check how the drive is jumpered, tho presumably
> > > its not jumpered since you didnt mention the jumpering.
> >
> > According to the documentation above, no jumper = master.
> >
> > I guess I'll just order a different IDE connector, and see how it
> > goes.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
> Do you have another 2.5" drive, you know works, to test your cable,
> connector etc.
>
> Drives can spin, and still be dead!

> The Windows Computer Management program is also very useful to see if
> the drive exists as a physical device.

Right, who cares whether the bios can't see it.

>
> Michael
From: Folkert Rienstra on 20 Jan 2008 19:23
Gilles Ganault wrote in news:i9e7p35ktvnkgcgcpfnrfl24l8lalrqm1e(a)4ax.com
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:18:12 -0800 (PST), mscotgrove(a)aol.com <mscotgrove(a)aol.com> wrote:
> > Do you have another 2.5" drive, you know works, to test your cable,
> > connector etc.
>
> Unfortunately, no.
>
> > Drives can spin, and still be dead!
>
> I suspect it's the adapter that just doesn't work with this drive.
> I've ordered a different kind.
>
> > The Windows Computer Management program is also very useful to see if
> > the drive exists as a physical device.
>
> When booting with a FreeBSD CD, it can't even see the drive, which
> makes sense since the BIOS itself can't see it.

> On a third PC, the BIOS reports 8GB instead of 20GB, and FreeBSD fails
> writing to it anyway :-/

Right, so obviously the drive is toast.
From: Folkert Rienstra on 20 Jan 2008 19:27
Gilles Ganault wrote in news:n8b4p3t5jmj21ki080e3g7o4ol682jjgo8(a)4ax.com
> Hello
>
> I bought an old, second-hand, 2.5" Fujistu MHN2200AT drive and
> the following data + power adaptor so I can use it in a regular PC
> with an IDE plug and Molex power plug:
>
> http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/5893/laptopdriveidecabledq0.jpg

> However, the drive is not seen by the two PC's in which I connected
> the drive.

> The drive does spin, so it's powered, and I have no reason to suspect
> that I was sold a bad drive.

Perhaps the seller thought the same thing.
It's not uncommon for drives to die between shutoff and switch on.

>
> I checked the online manual, and it's correctly plugged in (red layer
> on Pin1, and no jumper since this is the only device on the IDE bus:
>
> http://193.128.183.41/home/v3__product.asp?pid=242&inf=cfg&wg=0
> http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/724/laptopdriveidecable2lv6.jpg
>
> Should I try those other adapters?
> http://tinyurl.com/3xmejp
> http://www.addonics.com/products/io/aa25ide35.asp
>
> Has someone seen this? Any idea what I could try?
>
> Thanks for any tip.
From: Gilles Ganault on 21 Jan 2008 09:45
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:27:37 +0100, "Folkert Rienstra"
<see_reply-to(a)myweb.nl> wrote:
>Perhaps the seller thought the same thing.
>It's not uncommon for drives to die between shutoff and switch on.

Mmm... OK, I'll get a new one and give it another try. There such
isn't enough room to cram a 3.5" in there.

Thanks.
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