Well, at 8pm I started to migrate my 200GB Samsung from my XP Machine into my Server, with the view to formatting it and added some much needed space to it. I took it out, installed XP on a small 30GB Fujitsu demon i got, and the XP machine was working fine (w/o drivers obviously). I then stuck my HDD into my NAS (server), plugged the IDE and Power in, and fired it up. Ubuntu detected nothing, on the Samsung or my Maxtor IDE (which was already in the NAS). Ergo, i thought the Jumpers where the problem (Master – Master problems). After faffing for an hour, Martin said it may be the IDE cable itself only being able to support one HDD, so i got another IDE cable, ran it, and it worked, i then plugged the other HDD, and again, NOTHING. So, i was stumped. Then i thought, IDE – Check, Drivers  – Check, Drives arent Dead – Check. POWER. The ’strand’ i was powering my Maxtor and my SATA off obviously worked fine, but it had no spare molex’s coming off it. I stuck a spare case fan onto the OTHER strand coming out of my PSU to test the power; nothing. Somehow, my PSU has only broken strand. Now to test it wasnt because the HDD needed more power than a fan, i stuck 5, yes 5, case fans, in an extender and plugged it into the strand powering SATA and Maxtor, and all worked fine.

SO;

This leaves me needing one of 2 things :-

1. a 1-2 4pin Molex splitter. Which will allow me to split power off the working strand in order to fire up my Samsung HDD.

OR (god please no..)

2. A better, more power PSU.

Heres to hoping. So ive stuck my Samsung back into my XP Rig, set it as Master again and im back on this again for now (thank god i didnt format this, id of cried…)

Laters anyway folks,

Tired Mambo.

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