Old IDE drive not showing up

[BiotechBen]

So I have a sleeper that just got finished, and the original old IDE drive that I got an adapter for isn't showing up.... Or at least I can't find it. It should show up as a drive right? It's powered and functions (opens and closes and lights work). Anyone got any ideas here?

[emosun]

do you mean a cd drive? Do you have the jumper set on it correctly for your adapter?

[Guest]

You need to set the jumper to Master or Slave position. 

[BiotechBen]

Just now, ShrimpBrime said:

You need to set the jumper to Master or Slave position. 

Okay, will give that a try, it is currently set to the one that isn't either.... Not too familiar with IDE. Kinda came into computers when SATA was the standard

[BiotechBen]

5 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

You need to set the jumper to Master or Slave position. 

It also has a "mode select 2" any ideas for that? It's currently sitting on the far right jumper.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, BiotechBen said:

It also has a "mode select 2" any ideas for that? It's currently sitting on the far right jumper.

If it's a boot drive, Master. If it's a storage drive, Slave. 

 

If the board doesn't have Pata, the bios won't know what to do with mode select.

 

Older boards, if the Boot drive is selected as Master, the rest of the drives in "mode select" will be in order automatically as slave.

 

If you're using an 80 pin ribbon, try a 40 pin instead (or visa versa) if you still have issues after trying the above.

[BiotechBen]

@ShrimpBrime It's an old CD drive, which jumper setting should be used....

[Guest]

I would set the CD drive as master. Would be the same thing for hard drives. Same deal.

[BiotechBen]

[BiotechBen]

1 minute ago, ShrimpBrime said:

I would set the CD drive as master. Would be the same thing for hard drives. Same deal.

Sweet, will try it out and let ya know

[BiotechBen]

14 minutes ago, BiotechBen said:

Sweet, will try it out and let ya know

@ShrimpBrime no luck.

 

 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, BiotechBen said:

@ShrimpBrime no luck.

 

 

 

Sry late reply, was dinner time. 

Did you try both master and slave positions? 

You could also pull the jumper and see if it sees it.

Is it visible in bios at all?

Does the cd drive work on a legacy board? 

[BiotechBen]

23 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

Sry late reply, was dinner time. 

Did you try both master and slave positions? 

You could also pull the jumper and see if it sees it.

Is it visible in bios at all?

Does the cd drive work on a legacy board? 

tried both master and slave, no change, tried another drive with the system, m=both were fully functional on old machine. where would I find in in the bios, (ASRock b450 pro4)?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, BiotechBen said:

tried both master and slave, no change, tried another drive with the system, m=both were fully functional on old machine. where would I find in in the bios, (ASRock b450 pro4)?

It would be listed with the drives right on the main bios page along with floppy ect ect.... 

 

You can always try a PCI-E IDE card also. Relatively cheap way to get them to work on your modern hardware.

[BiotechBen]

41 minutes ago, ShrimpBrime said:

It would be listed with the drives right on the main bios page along with floppy ect ect.... 

 

You can always try a PCI-E IDE card also. Relatively cheap way to get them to work on your modern hardware.

the main page gives me:

UEFI Version:

Processor type:

Processor speed:

Microcode update:

 

total memory:

DDR4_A1:

DDR4_A2

DDR4_B1

DDR4_B2

 

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would it appear under Advanced\Storage Configuration with the SATA drives I have?

[BiotechBen]

I tried another drive AND IT WORKED

[BiotechBen]

Update, it shows up but won't read a disc