Can someone help me with a Hard Drive problem?

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2011/09/30 08:29:57 (permalink)

Can someone help me with a Hard Drive problem?

I have a Sutdio Cat dedicated DAW.  I've had it now probably 4/5 Years now.  I came with (2) Hard Drives. One drive is the OS Drive the other has all the Audio for my Recording projects.  I added a 3rd drive that was transferred over from my older DAW.  The system has worked fine all these years with no issues.  Recently, the 3rd drive, which is an older ATA drive, stopped working,  so I thought.  BTW, this drive has all my Sample libraries.
 
Anyway, I removed the drive from the PC and put it into a different machine to verify if indeed the drive had given up the ghost.  Well, it works fine.  I put it back into the main DAW still no go!
 
Any ideas what could be wrong?  I removed the drive and double checked the ribbon cable connectivity.  All looks good.  BTW, the DVD-RW drive is working fine.
 
Any suggestions is greatly appreciated.

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    fsr76
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    Re:Can someone help me with a Hard Drive problem? 2011/09/30 11:43:41 (permalink)
    Assuming you have an 80 pin cable vs a 40 pin cable (EIDE vs IDE), try plugging just the ATA drive into the end of the ribbon cable, and set the jumper setting of the drive to master. But if your ribbon cable has a tiny portion of the cable missing near one of the connectors, then set the ATA drive to Cable Select. BTW, did you use the same ATA cable when you put the hard drive into the other computer?

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    Re:Can someone help me with a Hard Drive problem? 2011/09/30 17:57:15 (permalink)
    fsr76,
    Thanks for the reply.  It's a 40 pin ribbon cable.  I had an extra ribbon cable and switched it out and now the drive is working.  I can't explain it other than maybe the way I had the drive/cable situated in the enclosure I may have cinched the cable in such a way that it strained where the connector "bit" into the cable.  I'm grasping at straws.
     
    Anyhow, thanks for the reply.
     
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    Re:Can someone help me with a Hard Drive problem? 2011/10/03 12:37:23 (permalink)
    Well, I thought my problems were solve.  Not so. 
     
    For whatever reason, It appears I can't have my HDD and DVD-RW plugged in a the same time.  Any ideas anyone?

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    Re:Can someone help me with a Hard Drive problem? 2011/10/03 13:15:58 (permalink)
    Only guessing but  it sounds like previously mentioned, a master/slave issue.
    Is this drive sharing a cable or on its own controller?
    There are jumpers on the drive that must be set it the correct position to designate it a master or slave.

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    Re:Can someone help me with a Hard Drive problem? 2011/10/03 14:36:54 (permalink)
    There are jumpers on the drive that must be set it the correct position to designate it a master or slave

     
    There are jumpers on both drive (CD & HDD) that may need to be set so they do not conflict.
    see: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=bph03792&lc=en&cc=uk&dlc=en
     
    I am not clear if you are installing both drives on a single cable/motherboard socket. If so, then jumper settings are definitely an issue, and there is the possibility that there is a discontinuity in the cable that is not connecting to one of the drives. The test for the latter is to plug a single drive into each connector on the cable (jumpered for the proper connector i. e. master at the end of the cable or slave at the middle connector, or jumpered as cable select) to see if it functions properly as a single drive.
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    Re:Can someone help me with a Hard Drive problem? 2011/10/04 07:53:31 (permalink)
    RLD & slartabartfast,
    Thanks for the suggestions.  I will give your suggestions a try and report back.  What I can not understand is that the system has worked fine all this time and only recently started acting up.
     
    I check/verify the jumpers.

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    Re:Can someone help me with a Hard Drive problem? 2011/10/04 08:02:29 (permalink)
    This is just a thought...

    Could the power supply be failing?  You state that you can't have both the DVD drive and the hard drive plugged in at the same time to work.  I'm just wondering if there is a power problem that causes one or the other to not be able to get sufficient power.

    I wouldn't go out and buy a power supply until you've checked the jumper situation that others are suggesting.  Just providing something else to consider if that (jumper settings) doesn't get you a solution.

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