Seagate 120gig, Interesting problem

[FlatLine84]

I just wanted to run this by anyone who had any ideas. I recently had a RAID 0 array on my Silicon Image controller (Abit IC7-G), and I have an 80gb WD 7200rpm SATA on my Intel SATA controller. I just installed a LIte-On DVD burner as master and put my 120gig seagate as slave on my primary IDE, my reason is for backup. So I had 2 partitions on my seagate, and I removed them, when I rebooted the comp freezes right after it finds all the drives, just before it switches to the next screen after POST. When I unplug the seagate it boots fine, and everything else is fine. and this setup was fine until I removed the partitions.

[Lazn_Work]

So it finds the Seagate just fine?

In your BIOS make sure you are set to boot off the SATA. (most likely it is not set to SATA)

If that is fine, then, try unplugging the WD drive and running a parition manager type program to be sure there are no active partitions on the Seagate. (ultimate Boot CD, Dos Boot disk with Fdisk, etc)

==>Lazn

[klowngoblin]

i have the exact same problem with 2x120GB NCQ SATA in Raid 0, i fixed the problem by putting 1 HDD + 1 ODD + 1-2 Fans on each PSU Lead. my power supply couldn't do 3 HDD's + 2 fans on 1 lead so i had to just even it out. do not put more than 2 HDD's on 1 lead and you will be ok

let me know if this works!

[FlatLine84]

Yeah, that worked, I didn't even think of power usage, it's an Enermax PSU 550 I believe, but I had my 2 WD's in RAID 0, my seagate, and my Radeon, and my DVD burner all on the same lead. I was trying to make my case look more presentable. :)