Mobile rack problem XP

[Guest Ken]

I purchased a mobile rack and three interchangeable trays for storing

data I don't need very often. I installed it first in my Windows 2000

system and it functions just fine--the disks are recognized when

inserted and the powered up, and I can interchange them at will without

problems.

 

I recently built a new system based on Windows XP SP3. I purchased a

second mobile rack for that unit with the expectation that I could use

the mobile hdd's in either workstation.

 

On the XPstation I have a C: drive active partition, a D: DVD writer, an

E: partition (on the same drive as the C: drive) and an F: drive on its

own partition (separate drive). I have 6 SATA connectors on my Intel

DP35DP mb with the DVD writer on the first, disk 0 on the second, disk 1

on the third, and the mobile rack on the fourth (as they appear in the BIOS)

 

When I insert the tray/drive into the internal mobile rack into the XP

unit, one of two things happens:

1. the drive is not recognized

2. the drive is recognized but my drive letter for my DVD writer is

reassigned from D: to G: drive.

3. the mobile rack is not recognized in the BIOS as existingMobile

 

I thought it was the cables, but that is not an issue. I thought it was

the connectors, but those are not the issue. It is not the units, as

both mobile racks work in the Win2K station without problem. Thinking

it might be data written to the hdd by Win2K that was causing the

problem, I reformatted the disks, but that did not help.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there something that needs to be

changed in the BIOS of the new Intel motherboard? Is this a problem

with the mobile rack that is installed in my XP machine? (the unit in

the Win2K machine is IDE and in the XP machine it is a SATA connection)

 

Thanks

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Mobile rack problem XP

 

 

"Ken" <noreply@charter.net> wrote in message

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>I purchased a mobile rack and three interchangeable trays for storing data

>I don't need very often. I installed it first in my Windows 2000 system

>and it functions just fine--the disks are recognized when inserted and the

>powered up, and I can interchange them at will without problems.

>

> I recently built a new system based on Windows XP SP3. I purchased a

> second mobile rack for that unit with the expectation that I could use the

> mobile hdd's in either workstation.

>

> On the XPstation I have a C: drive active partition, a D: DVD writer, an

> E: partition (on the same drive as the C: drive) and an F: drive on its

> own partition (separate drive). I have 6 SATA connectors on my Intel

> DP35DP mb with the DVD writer on the first, disk 0 on the second, disk 1

> on the third, and the mobile rack on the fourth (as they appear in the

> BIOS)

>

> When I insert the tray/drive into the internal mobile rack into the XP

> unit, one of two things happens:

> 1. the drive is not recognized

> 2. the drive is recognized but my drive letter for my DVD writer is

> reassigned from D: to G: drive.

> 3. the mobile rack is not recognized in the BIOS as existingMobile

>

> I thought it was the cables, but that is not an issue. I thought it was

> the connectors, but those are not the issue. It is not the units, as both

> mobile racks work in the Win2K station without problem. Thinking it might

> be data written to the hdd by Win2K that was causing the problem, I

> reformatted the disks, but that did not help.

>

> Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there something that needs to be

> changed in the BIOS of the new Intel motherboard? Is this a problem with

> the mobile rack that is installed in my XP machine? (the unit in the

> Win2K machine is IDE and in the XP machine it is a SATA connection)

>

> Thanks

 

I have had some mobile racks that were marginal. Sometimes the

disks inside were recognised, sometimes they weren't. These days

I use external USB cases. They always work and I can connect/

disconnect them while Windows is up and running.

 

If you intend to stick to mobile racks then you should examine the

boot messages generated by your BIOS. Does it recognise the

disks?

 

You can resolve the drive letter issue by running diskmgmt.msc

from the Start/Run box and assigning a letter of your choice to

the mobile rack disks.

[Guest Ken]

Re: Mobile rack problem XP

 

Pegasus (MVP) said the following on 5/17/2008 11:12 AM:

> "Ken" <noreply@charter.net> wrote in message

> news:w0FXj.13$aq.12@newsfe05.lga...

>> I purchased a mobile rack and three interchangeable trays for storing data

>> I don't need very often. I installed it first in my Windows 2000 system

>> and it functions just fine--the disks are recognized when inserted and the

>> powered up, and I can interchange them at will without problems.

>>

>> I recently built a new system based on Windows XP SP3. I purchased a

>> second mobile rack for that unit with the expectation that I could use the

>> mobile hdd's in either workstation.

>>

>> On the XPstation I have a C: drive active partition, a D: DVD writer, an

>> E: partition (on the same drive as the C: drive) and an F: drive on its

>> own partition (separate drive). I have 6 SATA connectors on my Intel

>> DP35DP mb with the DVD writer on the first, disk 0 on the second, disk 1

>> on the third, and the mobile rack on the fourth (as they appear in the

>> BIOS)

>>

>> When I insert the tray/drive into the internal mobile rack into the XP

>> unit, one of two things happens:

>> 1. the drive is not recognized

>> 2. the drive is recognized but my drive letter for my DVD writer is

>> reassigned from D: to G: drive.

>> 3. the mobile rack is not recognized in the BIOS as existingMobile

>>

>> I thought it was the cables, but that is not an issue. I thought it was

>> the connectors, but those are not the issue. It is not the units, as both

>> mobile racks work in the Win2K station without problem. Thinking it might

>> be data written to the hdd by Win2K that was causing the problem, I

>> reformatted the disks, but that did not help.

>>

>> Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there something that needs to be

>> changed in the BIOS of the new Intel motherboard? Is this a problem with

>> the mobile rack that is installed in my XP machine? (the unit in the

>> Win2K machine is IDE and in the XP machine it is a SATA connection)

>>

>> Thanks

>

> I have had some mobile racks that were marginal. Sometimes the

> disks inside were recognised, sometimes they weren't. These days

> I use external USB cases. They always work and I can connect/

> disconnect them while Windows is up and running.

>

> If you intend to stick to mobile racks then you should examine the

> boot messages generated by your BIOS. Does it recognise the

> disks?

>

> You can resolve the drive letter issue by running diskmgmt.msc

> from the Start/Run box and assigning a letter of your choice to

> the mobile rack disks.

>

Were you using external USB racks or separate powered cases for each

hdd? I was hoping to just have one device for each computer so that I

could exchange info. How does the exchange rate of info compare

between a USB connection and USB 2.0? It would mainly be for exchanging

large (4.5GB) files between computers for burning DVDs or playing videos

over my LAN with VidLAN.

 

Thanks

Ken K

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Mobile rack problem XP

 

 

"Ken" <noreply@charter.net> wrote in message

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> Pegasus (MVP) said the following on 5/17/2008 11:12 AM:

>> "Ken" <noreply@charter.net> wrote in message

>> news:w0FXj.13$aq.12@newsfe05.lga...

>>> I purchased a mobile rack and three interchangeable trays for storing

>>> data I don't need very often. I installed it first in my Windows 2000

>>> system and it functions just fine--the disks are recognized when

>>> inserted and the powered up, and I can interchange them at will without

>>> problems.

>>>

>>> I recently built a new system based on Windows XP SP3. I purchased a

>>> second mobile rack for that unit with the expectation that I could use

>>> the mobile hdd's in either workstation.

>>>

>>> On the XPstation I have a C: drive active partition, a D: DVD writer, an

>>> E: partition (on the same drive as the C: drive) and an F: drive on its

>>> own partition (separate drive). I have 6 SATA connectors on my Intel

>>> DP35DP mb with the DVD writer on the first, disk 0 on the second, disk 1

>>> on the third, and the mobile rack on the fourth (as they appear in the

>>> BIOS)

>>>

>>> When I insert the tray/drive into the internal mobile rack into the XP

>>> unit, one of two things happens:

>>> 1. the drive is not recognized

>>> 2. the drive is recognized but my drive letter for my DVD writer is

>>> reassigned from D: to G: drive.

>>> 3. the mobile rack is not recognized in the BIOS as existingMobile

>>>

>>> I thought it was the cables, but that is not an issue. I thought it was

>>> the connectors, but those are not the issue. It is not the units, as

>>> both mobile racks work in the Win2K station without problem. Thinking

>>> it might be data written to the hdd by Win2K that was causing the

>>> problem, I reformatted the disks, but that did not help.

>>>

>>> Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there something that needs to be

>>> changed in the BIOS of the new Intel motherboard? Is this a problem

>>> with the mobile rack that is installed in my XP machine? (the unit in

>>> the Win2K machine is IDE and in the XP machine it is a SATA connection)

>>>

>>> Thanks

>>

>> I have had some mobile racks that were marginal. Sometimes the

>> disks inside were recognised, sometimes they weren't. These days

>> I use external USB cases. They always work and I can connect/

>> disconnect them while Windows is up and running.

>>

>> If you intend to stick to mobile racks then you should examine the

>> boot messages generated by your BIOS. Does it recognise the

>> disks?

>>

>> You can resolve the drive letter issue by running diskmgmt.msc

>> from the Start/Run box and assigning a letter of your choice to

>> the mobile rack disks.

> Were you using external USB racks or separate powered cases for each hdd?

> I was hoping to just have one device for each computer so that I could

> exchange info. How does the exchange rate of info compare between a USB

> connection and USB 2.0? It would mainly be for exchanging large (4.5GB)

> files between computers for burning DVDs or playing videos over my LAN

> with VidLAN.

>

> Thanks

> Ken K

 

I usually use 2.5" disks. They are nice and small and they do not

require an external power supply.

 

USB1 is painfully slow but USB2 is much faster. It took me 67

seconds to copy a 1 GByte file from an internal IDE disk to an

external disk in a USB2 case. Here are the commands I used.

Note that drive C: should be an NTFS volume.

fsutil file createnew c:\big.bin 1000000000 (creates a 1 GByte file)

timethis copy c:\big.bin U:\ (measures the time to copy)

[Guest Ken]

Re: Mobile rack problem XP

 

Pegasus (MVP) wrote:

> "Ken" <noreply@charter.net> wrote in message

> news:VsFXj.16$aq.4@newsfe05.lga...

>> Pegasus (MVP) said the following on 5/17/2008 11:12 AM:

>>> "Ken" <noreply@charter.net> wrote in message

>>> news:w0FXj.13$aq.12@newsfe05.lga...

>>>> I purchased a mobile rack and three interchangeable trays for storing

>>>> data I don't need very often. I installed it first in my Windows 2000

>>>> system and it functions just fine--the disks are recognized when

>>>> inserted and the powered up, and I can interchange them at will without

>>>> problems.

>>>>

>>>> I recently built a new system based on Windows XP SP3. I purchased a

>>>> second mobile rack for that unit with the expectation that I could use

>>>> the mobile hdd's in either workstation.

>>>>

>>>> On the XPstation I have a C: drive active partition, a D: DVD writer, an

>>>> E: partition (on the same drive as the C: drive) and an F: drive on its

>>>> own partition (separate drive). I have 6 SATA connectors on my Intel

>>>> DP35DP mb with the DVD writer on the first, disk 0 on the second, disk 1

>>>> on the third, and the mobile rack on the fourth (as they appear in the

>>>> BIOS)

>>>>

>>>> When I insert the tray/drive into the internal mobile rack into the XP

>>>> unit, one of two things happens:

>>>> 1. the drive is not recognized

>>>> 2. the drive is recognized but my drive letter for my DVD writer is

>>>> reassigned from D: to G: drive.

>>>> 3. the mobile rack is not recognized in the BIOS as existingMobile

>>>>

>>>> I thought it was the cables, but that is not an issue. I thought it was

>>>> the connectors, but those are not the issue. It is not the units, as

>>>> both mobile racks work in the Win2K station without problem. Thinking

>>>> it might be data written to the hdd by Win2K that was causing the

>>>> problem, I reformatted the disks, but that did not help.

>>>>

>>>> Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there something that needs to be

>>>> changed in the BIOS of the new Intel motherboard? Is this a problem

>>>> with the mobile rack that is installed in my XP machine? (the unit in

>>>> the Win2K machine is IDE and in the XP machine it is a SATA connection)

>>>>

>>>> Thanks

>>> I have had some mobile racks that were marginal. Sometimes the

>>> disks inside were recognised, sometimes they weren't. These days

>>> I use external USB cases. They always work and I can connect/

>>> disconnect them while Windows is up and running.

>>>

>>> If you intend to stick to mobile racks then you should examine the

>>> boot messages generated by your BIOS. Does it recognise the

>>> disks?

>>>

>>> You can resolve the drive letter issue by running diskmgmt.msc

>>> from the Start/Run box and assigning a letter of your choice to

>>> the mobile rack disks.

>> Were you using external USB racks or separate powered cases for each hdd?

>> I was hoping to just have one device for each computer so that I could

>> exchange info. How does the exchange rate of info compare between a USB

>> connection and USB 2.0? It would mainly be for exchanging large (4.5GB)

>> files between computers for burning DVDs or playing videos over my LAN

>> with VidLAN.

>>

>> Thanks

>> Ken K

>

> I usually use 2.5" disks. They are nice and small and they do not

> require an external power supply.

>

> USB1 is painfully slow but USB2 is much faster. It took me 67

> seconds to copy a 1 GByte file from an internal IDE disk to an

> external disk in a USB2 case. Here are the commands I used.

> Note that drive C: should be an NTFS volume.

> fsutil file createnew c:\big.bin 1000000000 (creates a 1 GByte file)

> timethis copy c:\big.bin U:\ (measures the time to copy)

>

>

I can live with that transfer speed. Thanks

[Guest Lil' Dave]

Re: Mobile rack problem XP

 

"Ken" <noreply@charter.net> wrote in message

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>I purchased a mobile rack and three interchangeable trays for storing data

>I don't need very often. I installed it first in my Windows 2000 system

>and it functions just fine--the disks are recognized when inserted and the

>powered up, and I can interchange them at will without problems.

>

> I recently built a new system based on Windows XP SP3. I purchased a

> second mobile rack for that unit with the expectation that I could use the

> mobile hdd's in either workstation.

>

> On the XPstation I have a C: drive active partition, a D: DVD writer, an

> E: partition (on the same drive as the C: drive) and an F: drive on its

> own partition (separate drive). I have 6 SATA connectors on my Intel

> DP35DP mb with the DVD writer on the first, disk 0 on the second, disk 1

> on the third, and the mobile rack on the fourth (as they appear in the

> BIOS)

>

> When I insert the tray/drive into the internal mobile rack into the XP

> unit, one of two things happens:

> 1. the drive is not recognized

> 2. the drive is recognized but my drive letter for my DVD writer is

> reassigned from D: to G: drive.

> 3. the mobile rack is not recognized in the BIOS as existingMobile

>

> I thought it was the cables, but that is not an issue. I thought it was

> the connectors, but those are not the issue. It is not the units, as both

> mobile racks work in the Win2K station without problem. Thinking it might

> be data written to the hdd by Win2K that was causing the problem, I

> reformatted the disks, but that did not help.

>

> Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there something that needs to be

> changed in the BIOS of the new Intel motherboard? Is this a problem with

> the mobile rack that is installed in my XP machine? (the unit in the

> Win2K machine is IDE and in the XP machine it is a SATA connection)

>

> Thanks

 

Since the SATA rack system is being flaky, not the ide one you use on the 2K

system; the ide one is not an issue. There is a 2K problem with NTFS prior

to 2K SP2 for XP.

 

As far as utilization and connection, I would use the traditional onboard

hard disks, DVD/CD, then, removable media order for connections order.

 

In XP, I would reassign the DVD to some other drive letter that you probably

will never use. S: or T: for instance. I do this from the git-go

immediately after installing XP myself.

--

Dave

 

Parkinson's disease, not easy to define.

Much less cure.

[Guest Ken]

Re: Mobile rack problem XP

 

Lil' Dave said the following on 5/17/2008 7:56 PM:

> "Ken" <noreply@charter.net> wrote in message

> news:w0FXj.13$aq.12@newsfe05.lga...

>> I purchased a mobile rack and three interchangeable trays for storing data

>> I don't need very often. I installed it first in my Windows 2000 system

>> and it functions just fine--the disks are recognized when inserted and the

>> powered up, and I can interchange them at will without problems.

>>

>> I recently built a new system based on Windows XP SP3. I purchased a

>> second mobile rack for that unit with the expectation that I could use the

>> mobile hdd's in either workstation.

>>

>> On the XPstation I have a C: drive active partition, a D: DVD writer, an

>> E: partition (on the same drive as the C: drive) and an F: drive on its

>> own partition (separate drive). I have 6 SATA connectors on my Intel

>> DP35DP mb with the DVD writer on the first, disk 0 on the second, disk 1

>> on the third, and the mobile rack on the fourth (as they appear in the

>> BIOS)

>>

>> When I insert the tray/drive into the internal mobile rack into the XP

>> unit, one of two things happens:

>> 1. the drive is not recognized

>> 2. the drive is recognized but my drive letter for my DVD writer is

>> reassigned from D: to G: drive.

>> 3. the mobile rack is not recognized in the BIOS as existingMobile

>>

>> I thought it was the cables, but that is not an issue. I thought it was

>> the connectors, but those are not the issue. It is not the units, as both

>> mobile racks work in the Win2K station without problem. Thinking it might

>> be data written to the hdd by Win2K that was causing the problem, I

>> reformatted the disks, but that did not help.

>>

>> Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there something that needs to be

>> changed in the BIOS of the new Intel motherboard? Is this a problem with

>> the mobile rack that is installed in my XP machine? (the unit in the

>> Win2K machine is IDE and in the XP machine it is a SATA connection)

>>

>> Thanks

>

> Since the SATA rack system is being flaky, not the ide one you use on the 2K

> system; the ide one is not an issue. There is a 2K problem with NTFS prior

> to 2K SP2 for XP.

>

> As far as utilization and connection, I would use the traditional onboard

> hard disks, DVD/CD, then, removable media order for connections order.

>

> In XP, I would reassign the DVD to some other drive letter that you probably

> will never use. S: or T: for instance. I do this from the git-go

> immediately after installing XP myself.

Actually, I am wrong about the connection of the Win2K system. It, too,

is SATA.

[Guest Ken]

Re: Mobile rack problem XP

 

Lil' Dave wrote:

> "Ken" <noreply@charter.net> wrote in message

> news:w0FXj.13$aq.12@newsfe05.lga...

>> I purchased a mobile rack and three interchangeable trays for storing data

>> I don't need very often. I installed it first in my Windows 2000 system

>> and it functions just fine--the disks are recognized when inserted and the

>> powered up, and I can interchange them at will without problems.

>>

>> I recently built a new system based on Windows XP SP3. I purchased a

>> second mobile rack for that unit with the expectation that I could use the

>> mobile hdd's in either workstation.

>>

>> On the XPstation I have a C: drive active partition, a D: DVD writer, an

>> E: partition (on the same drive as the C: drive) and an F: drive on its

>> own partition (separate drive). I have 6 SATA connectors on my Intel

>> DP35DP mb with the DVD writer on the first, disk 0 on the second, disk 1

>> on the third, and the mobile rack on the fourth (as they appear in the

>> BIOS)

>>

>> When I insert the tray/drive into the internal mobile rack into the XP

>> unit, one of two things happens:

>> 1. the drive is not recognized

>> 2. the drive is recognized but my drive letter for my DVD writer is

>> reassigned from D: to G: drive.

>> 3. the mobile rack is not recognized in the BIOS as existingMobile

>>

>> I thought it was the cables, but that is not an issue. I thought it was

>> the connectors, but those are not the issue. It is not the units, as both

>> mobile racks work in the Win2K station without problem. Thinking it might

>> be data written to the hdd by Win2K that was causing the problem, I

>> reformatted the disks, but that did not help.

>>

>> Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there something that needs to be

>> changed in the BIOS of the new Intel motherboard? Is this a problem with

>> the mobile rack that is installed in my XP machine? (the unit in the

>> Win2K machine is IDE and in the XP machine it is a SATA connection)

>>

>> Thanks

>

> Since the SATA rack system is being flaky, not the ide one you use on the 2K

> system; the ide one is not an issue. There is a 2K problem with NTFS prior

> to 2K SP2 for XP.

>

> As far as utilization and connection, I would use the traditional onboard

> hard disks, DVD/CD, then, removable media order for connections order.

>

> In XP, I would reassign the DVD to some other drive letter that you probably

> will never use. S: or T: for instance. I do this from the git-go

> immediately after installing XP myself.

I am not sure what you mean when you say "I would use the traditional

onboard

> hard disks, DVD/CD, then, removable media order for connections

order." Can one choose the order in which the connections are made to

various devices? Where is that done in the BIOS? Thanks