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.