Oliver Elphick said: > Situation: > > I have a 6Gb 2.5" drive from a laptop, that won't boot in the laptop and > has been replaced by a 10Gb drive. (The old disk is Hitachi DK228A-65, and > the new is DK23BA-10.)
a lot of older IDE disks have compadiblity issues with each other. some refuse to be a slave in any configuration, some refuse to work on the same channel unless the other disk is the same brand(or same model), etc. your best bet would be to install a 2nd ide controller and hook the drive to it. or you can try making the cdrom a slave and the hard disk a master and see if that helps. also there may be special jumpers on the disk which may put it in a more 'compadible' mode. consult the docs on the drive for this info. I reccomend promise ata/100 controllers. nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
