[Ti] Cannot see disk drive.

[James H Herndon]

I recently had a problem with failure to recognize a known good drive  
when installed in a different host. This was a new 7200 rpm Hitachi  
Deskstar ATA133, one of a pair being installed at the same time. The  
ribbon connector termination at the master drive was good; the OS saw  
and mounted the drive. The slave connection to the same ribbon had  
evidently worked loose at one corner and the second drive failed to  
show up. No utility that I know of  will spot this. A new ribbon  
cable with two good connectors solved the problem.

Best wishes,

Jim H

On Apr 20, 2006, at 7:55 PM, David DelMonte wrote:

I can run this ibook from an external drive ok, but the computer  
doesn't recognise the new internal drive. I checked out the new drive  
before installing it (plugged it into a case and initialized it and  
disk checked it).

So I've done something to the computer. What utility is there to  
check the system unit, the ata boards, cables , cards, etc?

Thanks


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