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    CF51 New Hard Drive not Recognized in BIOS

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by tallman8251, Dec 12, 2011.

  1. tallman8251

    tallman8251 Newbie

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    Hello All:

    Looking for some help. I have a CD-51BFGDAKM and I am trying to install a drive in it. I bought this at a garage sale. Anyways, I am trying to put a TOSHIBA MK6025GAS (HDD2189) its a 60GB drive. Windows XP installs to it, but the BIOS wont recognize it, and when I go to boot it says NO OPERATING SYSTEM INSTALLED. Anyone have any ideas what the issue is?

    Thanks in advance.
     
    tallman8251, Dec 12, 2011
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    Springfield Notebook Deity

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    The HD must be set to Master.

    I've heard of some drives that do not set to Master even when the jumper is set right (usually no jumper). Check to see if pin 28 is ground. Both pins 26 and 30 are ground, so if 26 is not ground try putting some fine wire from 28 to either 26 or 30, then replace the HD connector and check BIOS if it shows up.
     
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    Ok, I will give that a go. Which ground do I use. below is a list of the pinouts for the drive..


    DRIVE INTERFACE SIGNALS
    PIN SIGNAL PIN SIGNAL
    1 RESET 2 GROUND
    3 DD 7 4 DD 8
    5 DD 6 6 DD 9
    7 DD 5 8 DD 10
    9 DD 4 10 DD 11
    11 DD 3 12 DD 12
    13 DD 2 14 DD 13
    15 DD 1 16 DD 14
    17 DD 0 18 DD 15
    19 GROUND 20 KEY
    21 DMARQ 22 GROUND
    23 DIOW/STOP 24 GROUND
    25 DIOR/ -DMARDY HSTROBE 26 GROUND
    27 IORDY/ -DMARDY/-DSTROBE 28 CSEL
    29 DMACK 30 GROUND
    31 INTRQ 32 IOCS16
    33 DA1 34 PDIAG
    35 DA0 36 DA 2
    37 CS0 38 CS1
    39 DASP 40 GROUND
    41 +5V (LOGIC) 42 +5V (MOTOR)
    43 GROUND 44 RESERVED
     
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    Try wiring 26 (CSEL) to either 26 or 30
     
    Springfield, Dec 13, 2011
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