4000T not recognizing IDE disk

[gdanko]

Hi all. I am trying to set up an 4000T with a 40GB Maxtor drive. I have done this before on a 4000D with no hassles. But this one does not want to recognize a larger drive. As I recall, my 4000D recognized the drive, I formatted a 2GB partition, booted to 3.9 and installed. Is there something I am missing? I would like to get this 4000T going

[Thomas]

Does the very same drive work in the A4000D or is it a different drive ?

What's the config ? Do you have a CSPPC or CSMK3 accelerator which has the option to disable the IDE bus ?

There are known issues with slow initialising drives which are only recognised after a reset. But this usually happens on Kickstart 3.0 and earlier, it shouldn't happen on Kick 3.1.

Bye,
Thomas

[gdanko]

I did successfully use a 120mb drive as a test. It had already been formatted in a 4000D. So the IDE is enabled.

[CLS2086]

Hi,
this remind me Good old IDE jokes, that happen also on PC.
Some IDE Drives need to be set as Slave when they are alone on their channel, some need to be set to 32GB compatibility mode, some need to be set "ATAPI"...
Try that too.

[gdanko]

Is there a limitation in 3.1 on the size of the drive? If I remember correctly, on the 4000D I did something like this:

1) Install 20G drive
2) Boot 3.1 installer
3) Create 2G partition on the drive
4) Install 3.1
5) Install AsimCDFS
6) Insert 3.9 CD
7) Create emergency disk
Boot emergency disk
9) Install OS 3.9 to 2G partition
10) Reboot
11) Create 18G partition and format it

Maybe I am not doing this correctly??

[gdanko]

Well I tried the 20G, 40G, and 200G in a 4000D.
200G: will not even try to boot
40G: will boot but doesn't show up in HDToolBox
20G is funny. It will boot and I can see it in HDToolBox but it takes a long time to open the toolbox. Hangs on device 0 or 1. When it finally comes up I can repartition the drive and of course I need to reboot. After the reboot the disk does not show up on the desktop.

[gdanko]

Problem solved. First off, the Maxtor just doesn't work. Additionally, it would turn out the Western Digital drives like to have the Master/Slave/CS jumper removed if it is a single drive configuration. So once I removed the jumper I was able to recognize/format my disks!