Hello

I bought an old, second-hand, 2.5" Fujistu MHN2200AT drive and
the following data + power adaptor so I can use it in a regular PC
with an IDE plug and Molex power plug:

http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/5...decabledq0.jpg

However, the drive is not seen by the two PC's in which I connected
the drive. The drive does spin, so it's powered, and I have no reason
to suspect that I was sold a bad drive.

I checked the online manual, and it's correctly plugged in (red layer
on Pin1, and no jumper since this is the only device on the IDE bus:

http://193.128.183.41/home/v3__produ...2&inf=cfg&wg=0
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/7...ecable2lv6.jpg

Should I try those other adapters?
http://tinyurl.com/3xmejp
http://www.addonics.com/products/io/aa25ide35.asp

Has someone seen this? Any idea what I could try?

Thanks for any tip.

Gilles Ganault <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
The first thing to check is that it is a viable 2.5" drive.

One way to do that is to see if it will work in one of the
external cases that are designed to take 2.5" drives.

You should also check how the drive is jumpered, tho presumably
its not jumpered since you didnt mention the jumpering.

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:17:27 +1100, "Rod Speed"
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't have this kind of external case, so no way to check that the
drive is OK :-/

According to the documentation above, no jumper = master.

I guess I'll just order a different IDE connector, and see how it
goes.

Thanks.

On Jan 20, 11:09*am, Gilles Ganault <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
Do you have another 2.5" drive, you know works, to test your cable,
connector etc.

Drives can spin, and still be dead!

The Windows Computer Management program is also very useful to see if
the drive exists as a physical device.

Michael

On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:18:12 -0800 (PST), "mscotgrove@aol.com"
<mscotgrove@aol.com> wrote:
Unfortunately, no.

I suspect it's the adapter that just doesn't work with this drive.
I've ordered a different kind.

When booting with a FreeBSD CD, it can't even see the drive, which
makes sense since the BIOS itself can't see it.

On a third PC, the BIOS reports 8GB instead of 20GB, and FreeBSD fails
writing to it anyway :-/

mscotgrove@aol.com wrote in
news:1cd77031-a538-4b0b-866b-80dba5e555e1@v46g2000hsv.googlegroups.com
Right, who cares whether the bios can't see it.

Gilles Ganault wrote in news:i9e7p35ktvnkgcgcpfnrfl24l8lalrqm1e@4ax.com
Right, so obviously the drive is toast.

Gilles Ganault wrote in news:n8b4p3t5jmj21ki080e3g7o4ol682jjgo8@4ax.com
Perhaps the seller thought the same thing.
It's not uncommon for drives to die between shutoff and switch on.

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:27:37 +0100, "Folkert Rienstra"
<see_reply-to@myweb.nl> wrote:
Mmm... OK, I'll get a new one and give it another try. There such
isn't enough room to cram a 3.5" in there.

Thanks.