edwin wrote:But, if the original drive is giving the same error you have a cabling problem which you should solve first.
Or perhaps even a jumper setting problem.
Iv'e been caught out by following the diagram for jumper settings
listed on the drives & had no end of greif only to find the manufacturer
listed totally different jumper settings on their sight.
Especially when using the 80 wire cable, I find some drives
work/detect correctly using cable select for both drives,
& in some cases cable select on the slave whilst using the master
select for the master.
Not unusual to have to experiment with this.
Especially with seagate drives.
In fact, if you use the seagate diagnostic floppy they provide on their
sight for use on a system with 2 x of thier 40gig drives, & set the
jumpers up as listed on the drives, the diagnostic program will tell you
your new 40gig master tests perfect, whilst your new 40gig slave has
an issue with either the cable or the drive, & will fail the test,, swap the
drives over & the jumpers, & now the master which was the slave will
test perfect whilst again the slave will detect as faulty.
Set the master as master with the jumpers & cable select with the slave
& both drives test perfect..
Seagate had no idea why this worked like this & blamed the new
motherboard or the 3 new cables i'd bought as being the issue...