I looked for the jumper setting to make this drive a master [it use to be the slave drive] because it is bigger and I moved the old Master drive to another computer and them move thet drive from the other computer to the Slave position in this one. I'm not sure how to set the jumpers on the Maxtor 30 to be the master. I looked it up on the site but when set like they had it it was not recognized at all. .. only the slave drive was recognized help Rocket River
You may have set the jumpers correctly, but if there is a problem with your BIOS recognizing a large hard drive, you might not be able to recognize the drive as master. Though, if it was recognized as a slave, it should work as master. Make sure you did not damage your IDE connection to the motherboard. I had this happen at work on the secondary channel on an old pc. Took forever to figure out what was wrong. Check out groups.google.com. You might find something there.
Why not check-out their web site. I am not sure which drive you have, but here is an example of their support info: http://www.maxtor.com/products/DiamondMax/DiamondMaxVL/default.htm
The master-slave jumper on Maxtor drives in 'J50', the farthest jumper to the left if looking at the drive from behind with the IDE connector to the left and the molex connector to the right. 'J50' is also usualy printed on the circut board just under the jumpers. Get it recognized on the controller alone (no slave) as the master. Make sure the slave isn't jumpered as 'cable select' as is sometimes the case. Once you have the first drive recognised then you can add the second if the master then disapears then the problem is most likely the jumpering on the slave.
I always thought Maxtor printed the jumper settings on the drive itself or is that just for retail drives? I have a couple of 30 gig Maxtors in my main machine and they both have the jumper settings displayed on the drive. BTW, all the advice given here is solid. Hey, Rocket River, do you know what model number that drive is?
Here are your pins with no jumpers on them : o o o o o o o o o o Here is how it should look with your HD in a master configuration : 1 2 2 o o 1 o o o o In the above piece o' crap diagram, the 1's represent one jumper and the 2's represent the other. The second jumper isn't technically being used for anything.
