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Internal 5.25" bay for 3.5" hard drives not detected.

  • 20-04-2007 2:44pm
    #1
    Rand_alThor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭


    This is pretty much what it says. I bought an Internal 5.25" bay for 3.5" IDE hard drives on adverts.ie the other day, installed it with a drive I know to be working and connected the bay as the primary IDE slave.

    I powered on, turned on the drive and a few seconds after logging into Windows XP Pro, I got a popup alert telling me the new hardware (not specified what hardware) had been installed and a restart was required. I thought 'fine', restarted but no sign of the drive that I have inserted in the drive bay.

    It's a key activated one so when I insert the drive and turn the key to lock it in place and power it on I get a power LED and an activity LED for a few seconds then nothing but the power LED and no apparent detection in windows.

    I don't know what brand this thing is but it's basically just a bay that connects to an IDE channel and then the drive case slots into this and connects through a parallel or SCSI (not sure which it is) socket.

    Can anyone give me any tips or point me in the way of a solution? Do these things need drivers? I've talked to the seller but he never needed any addition software for it. He's offered a refund but I want to try and get it running first. Do the jumper settings on the HDD make any difference? Or does the bay need to be set as the primary IDE master or as the only IDE device on the channel?

    Any advice welcome.
    Thanks.


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  • #2
    far2gud
    Closed Accounts Posts: 299 ✭✭far2gud


    Make sure the drive is connected corretly to the caddy. From what your saying Windows may have detected the caddy but not the drive.

    Try setting the jumper on the drive to cable select. Also check that the caddy itself does not have jumper setting that may be conflicting. You mention scsi and parallel interfaces but ide drives? not sure what you mean there.

    **edit**5.25" bays are usually to cd-rom drives so that may be your problem


  • #3
    Rand_alThor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭Rand_alThor


    Yeah, it's on cable select; I've tried the few different jumper settings already. And it's connected as far as it's possible to tell. The power/key switch won't turn on if it's not fully in. Its the bay to caddy connection that I was refering to as SCSI or parallel. I'm not sure if it's either but it's the hot swap connection, you know, the actuall connection thats made between the bay and caddy when you slot the caddy in.

    On second thoughts that alert about detecting new hardware and needing a restart could've been refering to a new hard drive I added at the same time. Although it's just a SATA drive and shouldn't need to be detected/restarted AFAIK.

    I'm gonna try and run it outside the case with the top off to see if the drive spins up.

    Not sure what you mean with your edit. It's a specially designed 3.5"removable drive bay for a 5.25" PC case slot. So the 'bay' fills the 5.25" slot while the smaller 3.5" removable drive case, the caddy like you said, can be slotted in and out.

    Thanks for the tips.


  • #4
    8T8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭8T8


    Did you check the disk management console in Windows the drive may be present just not assigned a drive letter.


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