Problem accessing IDE disc on a EPIA-ML6000EAG

[boyblue]

Have you got another harddrive to try?

[johan.eke]

Did one more check.

Removed the IDE Disc and put it in a USB box and connected the USB to my regular Windows 2000 machine. Ran the Seagate tool for windows and the test ran succesfully. As I had expected it to do.

[johan.eke]

Originally Posted by boyblue

Have you got another harddrive to try?

I'll have to look into it tomorow. Time to go and catch some zzzz now. I belive I have a few drives in my closet that I could try. Not sure of the status of the discs in question though ( thats why they are in the closet ;-)

[boyblue]

I would also recheck the case connector to the front panel, ie, power switch, HDD, LED, etc.

** Looks OK in the BIOS as far as can see.** The harddrive should have written on it all the capacity settings so check in the bios to see if they are the same.

[boyblue]

Have you tried clearing the bios, make sure the power cord is turned off first.

[johan.eke]

Originally Posted by boyblue

Have you got another harddrive to try?

Found an old Fujitsu MPF3204AT. Plugged it in and started the machine. Worked without a hitch. No errors in the log. And when Ubuntu was up and running I could access the disc without any problems.

Have to backup anything of interest on that disc before I can format it but it looks like a good fallback plan if I can't get the Seagate up and running.

[johan.eke]

Originally Posted by boyblue

I would also recheck the case connector to the front panel, ie, power switch, HDD, LED, etc.

** Looks OK in the BIOS as far as can see.** The harddrive should have written on it all the capacity settings so check in the bios to see if they are the same.

Did a recheck of the connectors and can't find anything strange about them.

The reported values in the BIOS screen was
Capacity: 120 GB
Cylinder: 57461
Head: 16
Precomp: 0
Landing zone: 57460
Sector: 255

The disc only contains model/serial information written on it. Found some information on Seagate site saying the following but not sure if this is relating to something different...

Cylinders: 16383
Heads: 16
Sector: 63

[johan.eke]

Originally Posted by boyblue

Have you tried clearing the bios, make sure the power cord is turned off first.

Tried it. Didn't make a difference either.

[boyblue]

Have you tried Seagates software to write zeros over the harddrive just in case there is an old piece of software hindering things.

[johan.eke]

Originally Posted by johan.eke

Did a recheck of the connectors and can't find anything strange about them.

The reported values in the BIOS screen was
Capacity: 120 GB
Cylinder: 57461
Head: 16
Precomp: 0
Landing zone: 57460
Sector: 255

The disc only contains model/serial information written on it. Found some information on Seagate site saying the following but not sure if this is relating to something different...

Cylinders: 16383
Heads: 16
Sector: 63

Did a check on one of my other PC that have the same type of disc different type of hardware but same type of BIOS ( Award ) and it reported the same as the Via board.

Cylinder: 57461
Head: 16
Landing zone: 57460
Sector: 255

Since I don't have a problem on that PC I guess that information is correct for this type of disc.

Next up is to boot on the Seagate tools ISO disc and try and access the disc as you suggested.