HDD Help – Is PATA and IDE the same thing?

Tyring to install a Netgear SC101 network hard drive. I’ve got a 500gb PATA HDD that it doesn’t seem to recognise, any ideas?

yes, pata = ide.

are the ‘jumpers’ set correctly? i.e. is it set to slave or master.

well, i’m out of ideas.

cable select as per netgears instructions

PATA = ATA133 = EIDE

Similar, though some systems, particularly the network storage solutions which utilise RAID may not recognise larger capacity disks by default.

Try a firware update? – Does the drive work on its own in a PC?

I’ve got a usb caddy with 40gb drive here now that’s working.

I’ll switch them over

2 mins

Right.

Plugged it into other drive. Windows beeps as if it recognises it, but the drive isn’t show on the list

go into your bios and poke about a bit. i’ve had to ‘enable’ a sata drive this way before ( which i thought kind of odd, but there you are ).

my mate has sorted it out on the usb drive via remote assistance.

Marvelous thing the internerd

The netgear thingy still doesn’t like it though 🙁

netgear thing is rubbish

Recognises my 40g drive

not my 500

🙁