swee'pea99
Squire
Ok, got a new (to me) PC off ebay. A real monster - Dell T3500 - damn thing weighs more than my car. Anyway, the spec is as follows:
I plug the WD in, turn on, there it is - a new E drive. I plug the Maxtor in, nothing. I can feel it buzzing. Power's getting in, the data ribbon is the same one that worked with the WD drive, but it doesn't appear. I've tried using different connectors and swapping both around, but however I play it, I get the same result: the WD shows up; the Maxtor doesn't.
Needless to say I'm way out of my comfort zone on this kind of thing. I generally just work by trial & error, and generally get there in the end. (That's how I ended up with 3 HDs in the old Asus.) But this one's got me baffled.
And thoughts and advice much appreciated.
- Intel Xeon E5630 Socket 1366 LGA
- 12 GB of DDR ECC RAM
- Radeon ATI FirePro 2260 Graphics
- 500GB (2 x 250GB) hard disks in Raid 0
- PCI RAID storage controller - up to 8 additional drives
I plug the WD in, turn on, there it is - a new E drive. I plug the Maxtor in, nothing. I can feel it buzzing. Power's getting in, the data ribbon is the same one that worked with the WD drive, but it doesn't appear. I've tried using different connectors and swapping both around, but however I play it, I get the same result: the WD shows up; the Maxtor doesn't.
Needless to say I'm way out of my comfort zone on this kind of thing. I generally just work by trial & error, and generally get there in the end. (That's how I ended up with 3 HDs in the old Asus.) But this one's got me baffled.
And thoughts and advice much appreciated.