I just purchased this http://en.vipower.com/products01_01... My hard drive is Ultra ATA (no not sata) When I set it up etc put it into the cradle and turn it on I can hear the hard drive running but it does not come up in windows. I have set the jumper to master, slave and cs. Is it the wrong caddy or have I missed something

Have you tried connecting the hdd, using the same interface cable, but without the caddy in place? If the hdd works, then I would suspect the caddy. The caddy specification states:- Supports most 3.5" UDMA 66/100/133 IDE devices Note the 'most', perhaps yours is one that it doesn't. This may help:- www.wisegeek.com/what-is-ultra-ata.htm Good Luck - Keep us posted

The drive works directly into the mobo. Will take unit back in the morning. Tried other hdd's the same way but no different. Thanks anyways

Recheck the key. It must be locked and I think you should see the light on. IT IS NOT a hot swap model so don't do that. I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.

"Recheck the key. It must be locked and I think you should see the light on." The circular chrome lock port has an electrical switch attached to the back of it. If it is in the locked position, the drive should be detected fine if the jumpers on it and the data cable connection to it is right. Most of these caddies also have an led that lights up when the switch is on and the drive has power, and an led that lights up according to the hard disk's activity. The lock often also has a mechanical lever on it that prevents the tray from being removed from the caddy when it is locked and the switch is on, so the lock must be in the unlocked position, such that the led is not lit up if applicable, in order to be able to remove or install the caddie tray. Therefore, the switch is probably off by default - you have to use the key to turn it on.

Yeah its locked when caddy in and it lights up . Correct ribbon used, jumper in right spot. Oh well only cost $20 AUS so I gave up on it so I threw it out. Not worth mucking about with. Thanks anyways guys. Finished.

Are you SURE you didn't jumper or connect something wrong, or there wasn't some other problem? "I have set the jumper to master, slave and cs." You use either master or slave jumpering, or cable select jumpering. You don't mix CS with master or slave on the same data cable. Lots of mboards will not detect a drive if it is jumpered as slave, or if it is jumpered CS and is on the middle connector, if it is by itself on a data cable. Some labels on drives are confusing - the jumper settings may be shown upside down relative to the back of the drive. If the relative position of the power connector is shown on the label, go by that. If not check the jumper settings on the manufacturer's web site it the label info is confusing. You don't jumper both drives slave or master on the same data cable. Some drives (e.g. WD) have different jumpering when they are master and there is another drive jumpered slave on the same data cable. The striped side of the data cable should be next to the power connector on the drive if it will go on either way. If the data cable connector will plug into the caddy either way, the striped side of the data cable should be on the pin 1 side. (UDMA/66 cables usually have no blocked pin hole on the connectors and no protruding tab on the connectors so they can go on either way; UDMA/100 or UDMA/133 cables usually have one blocked pin hole and a protruding tab on the connectors so can go on only one way) The proper connector on a 3 connector 80 wire data cable has to be plugged into the mboard - usually it's blue, but in any case it's the one farther from the middle connector. It is common to un-intentionally damage IDE data cables, especially while removing them - the 80 wire ones are more fragile. What usually happens is the cable is ripped at either edge and the wires there are either damaged or severed, often right at a connector or under it's cable clamp there, where it's hard to see - if a wire is severed but it's ends are touching, the connection is intermittant. Another common thing is for the data cable to be separated from the connector contacts a bit after you have removed a cable - there should be no gap between the data cable and the connector - if there is press the cable against the connector to eliminate the gap. 80 wire data cables are also easily damaged at either edge if the cable is sharply creased at a fold in the cable. Try another data cable if in doubt. In your case this may also apply to a short IDE cable in the caddy tray, especially if you flipped it to connect to the drive. The drive tray has to be all the way into the caddy - in the case of your caddy, the handle on the tray must be flat against the end of the tray. The power led will probably light up even when that isn't the case when the switch is on, and even if the tray isn't inserted at all. The led lighting up usually indicates the caddy has power, not necessarily the drive itself. Are you sure you plugged a power connector into the drive inside the tray? It's wires are very short - did you check to see if a wire is broken off?