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Removable HDD.
Name: Ted. Date: October 20, 2004 at 01:55:26 Pacific OS: XP Home CPU/Ram: Athlon 1.74ghz/512 mg
Comment:
Hi, all.
I have a Samsung SPO411N 40 gig HDD mounted in a plastic tray which I can remove from its mounted cradle in my PC whenever I wish to. There is a little plastic slider switch which is marked "Power" on the front of the tray. This HDD is connected as a Slave to my DVD burner on the Secondary IDE cable and is used solely for Image backups. Recently I downloaded a tool named: Hutil from Samsung and performed a low-level format on this drive. After comprehensive checking the drive was passed as okay.
My question: Quite often, lately, the red indicator light on this HDD will stay on and my PC will freeze. If I slide the power switch across and back (Not good policy I know) things return to normal. Why is this?
Name: uppercrust Date: October 20, 2004 at 05:32:48 Pacific
Reply:
first thought is never to low level an ide type hdd. it can damage the drive
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Response Number 2
Name: Doormat Date: October 20, 2004 at 09:30:52 Pacific
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"This HDD is connected as a Slave to my DVD burner on the Secondary IDE cable"
That's a configuration I have never tried myself, opting to always use the HDD as primary master and any cd readers/burners either as a primary slave or secondary master.
This preserves the computer's ability to have continual access to the BIOS and command set, which may not be available on the dvd burner. Should a command or library be required that is NOT on the dvd, or in the standard path, it is feasable that the machine could hang-up when searching for support files.
Just guessing here ...
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Response Number 3
Name: ham30 Date: October 20, 2004 at 10:35:34 Pacific
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A hard drive can be connected to either Master or Slave. There is really no difference between the two.
My `guess' is a poor connection in the removeable tray.
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Response Number 4
Name: Ted. Date: October 21, 2004 at 03:04:29 Pacific
Reply:
Hi, uppercrust, Doormat and ham30. Thank you for your replies.
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