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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: RE: 5400rpm toshiba drive in JBRRE: 5400rpm toshiba drive in JBR
From: Stuart Tedford <stuart.tedford_at_piresearch.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:48:22 +0100 > What do you call 'not recognised' I use the term "not recognised" in this case to mean that during the "plug n pray" installation of the USB enclosure (on winXP, and win98), it gets to the stage of detecting/installing the USB to IDE bridge connection and then it stops with an error message saying there was a problem. > If windows does not assign a drive letter there are many reasons. > > Are you sure your drive has been initialized and has a partition? > > go to 'manage computer' (in xp) and manage drives. your drive > may appear > and not initialized. > you may assign a letter there. > Don't worry, I use windows a lot and I am experienced in the detection/formatting/assigning of drives etc. The drive does not appear in either the "Disk Management" or "device manager" of winXP or win98. I am going to try the HW mod described here http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:75zXqRuNZa4J:kharendaen.dyndns.org:8000 /~henke/public/mk1214gap/+Toshiba+cut+pin+master+slave&hl=de as this seems to be the cause of what I am experiencing. I'll let you all know the outcome. Thanks. Stu. > -----Original Message----- > From: sophana [mailto:jobarjo78_at_yahoo.fr] > Sent: 02 June 2004 12:54 > To: Rockbox development > Subject: Re: 5400rpm toshiba drive in JBR > > > Stuart Tedford wrote: > > >I have also now tried this drive (MK6022GAX) in my new > external USB2 HDD > >enclosure, and it doesn't work. Same symptoms - drive spins > up but is not > >recognised. Other drives do work in the enclosure, so it must be a > >master/slave issue because the drive does work in one of my > laptops. It's > >an OEM drive so I've got no chance of getting any help from > toshiba. It is > >supposed to be a master when there is no jumper attached, so > does anyone > >have any ideas I can try? > > > >Stu. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox > _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-06-02 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |