SCSI Hard Drive Problem

grebinrm · October 13th, 2003, 02:25 AM

I have a Digital 5000 series PC w/ 266mHz and 256mb RAM. I was running (2) SCSI hard drives and and IDE CD Rom. I attached and IDE hard drive as a slave to the IDE (primary) port to format it for another PC (which failed). After removing the IDE hard drive the Windows 2000 Pro OS failed. I fully reinstalled and for some reason the PC will not recognize the 2nd SCSI hard drive. This is driving my crazy and I know my way around PC's. It shows up during the boot sequence and as an item in the System properties but is not recognized as a valid drive in My Computer, Explorer etc. Any ideas people?

Thanks,

Rich
holgarth@hotmail.com

NDC · October 13th, 2003, 02:59 AM

Did you already install the Service pack for Windows 2000?

Dj-Icer · October 13th, 2003, 03:42 AM

HDD out? Is there anything to do with the pin jumpers on the HDD? Have you checked at the BIOS setup?
Try swap those power supply cable, see if that works.

sm8000 · October 13th, 2003, 02:35 PM

Run diskmgmt.msc and see if it shows up there, you may have to re-initialize it.

grebinrm · October 17th, 2003, 11:18 PM

This hard drive, which is a 2nd drive, worked fine until I tried attaching an IDE hard drive to the primary IDE cable, which runs my CD ROM. After that, the 2nd HD shows up during the POST test but is not 'mapped' after windows boots. Nor is it accessible at a DOS prompt. No pins or jumper have been changed. Haven't tried diskmgmt.msc yet but I will and will post back. I'm thinking of pulling the battery, fdisking the /mbr and hard drive (primary one) and reinstalling AGAIN. Thanks and I'll let ya' know how things go. Oh yea...running SP4. Don't forget, this is a SCSI drive and I can't find somewhere to initialize it in the BIOS, which I don't think there is way to do that anyways. Regards.

--Rich

John Prophet · October 17th, 2003, 11:20 PM

Is anything shown in device manager with a yellow question mark or exclam or anything??

JP

sm8000 · October 18th, 2003, 02:44 AM

Okay, just to double-check all the basic bases:

- The SCSI drive must be jumpered and terminated properly
- It must have a unique ID (different from other devices, such as controller/card)
- Enter SCSI controller's BIOS and prevent checking for devices at unused ID numbers.

Download the manufacturer's drive utility for SCSI drives and run it, maybe it needs to be initialized there. Otherwise initialize it in Win2k's Disk Management console and place a file system on it (format it). Check the boot order in your motherboard's BIOS.

grebinrm · October 19th, 2003, 09:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by John Prophet
Is anything shown in device manager with a yellow question mark or exclam or anything??

JP

Hard drive shows up just fine in Device Manager.

SCSI Chain is terminated properly. 1st hard drive is SCSI ID #0 (and works fine, is boot drive). The 2nd hard drive is ID #2 and both show as a valid hardware device during boot.ini sequence. I think initialization is the way to go.....will let y'all know. Thanks.

Regards,
Rich