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What's up with Hard drive?
Since I added it, the light (the ones that flicker to show activity) on the CPU is alway illuminated. Only thing is, it does not sound like it is working (no grinding, humming) and the windows task manager shows CPU usage hovering around 2% and 8% with no applications running (seems to low for a drive that is processing) Any ideas? Just some anomaly to adding the second drive? Did I screw up the installation? Thanks in advance macglade the flickering light is your C drive activity.
did you set its jumper to slave? did you put the slave on the ribbons middle connector? Henry Hall wrote:
> the flickering light is your C drive activity. The flickering light is for ANY drive/partition, not just the C drive.> > did you set its jumper to slave? > > did you put the slave on the ribbons middle connector? > > macglade, does the drive operate as normal? GFree wrote:
> Henry Hall wrote: First, the machine is a dell which employs "Cable Select" which I take > >> the flickering light is your C drive activity. >> >> did you set its jumper to slave? >> >> did you put the slave on the ribbons middle connector? >> > > The flickering light is for ANY drive/partition, not just the C drive. > > macglade, does the drive operate as normal? to mean it makes the slave the drive on the middle connector and the primary the other (non-motherboard) end. In any case, the jumpers on the middle connector are set to slave Normal? Well, my perception (right or wrong)is that it is slower. Programs take a bit longer to open it seems, etc. Is it slower? Not sure But i know what a drive sounds like when it is spinning (or whatever they do) and since I still have the case cover off (and am in a better postion to hear it) I'd hear it working all the time. And it is not. 1. cable should be 80 wire one
2. both drive shoud be cable selected. 3. master should be on the end of the cable boba vankufer Show quoteHide quote "macglade" <macgl***@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:2LSPd.7528$mG6.1049@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net... > GFree wrote: >> Henry Hall wrote: >> >>> the flickering light is your C drive activity. >>> >>> did you set its jumper to slave? >>> >>> did you put the slave on the ribbons middle connector? >>> >> >> The flickering light is for ANY drive/partition, not just the C drive. >> >> macglade, does the drive operate as normal? > > > First, the machine is a dell which employs "Cable Select" which I take to > mean it makes the slave the drive on the middle connector and the primary > the other (non-motherboard) end. In any case, the jumpers on the middle > connector are set to slave > > Normal? Well, my perception (right or wrong)is that it is slower. > Programs take a bit longer to open it seems, etc. Is it slower? Not sure > > But i know what a drive sounds like when it is spinning (or whatever they > do) and since I still have the case cover off (and am in a better postion > to hear it) I'd hear it working all the time. And it is not. 
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