Is there any difference?

I have a new 80G Maxtor PATA 133 drive that will not work in an IDE caddy I have just bought. I have a new 80G Seagate Ultra drive that works fine in the caddy, just the same as all my old IDE drives.

I am using Linux Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn).

Any ideas would be much appreciated. Many thanks! :-)

Could you post the model numbers of the two drives?

Also the make and model of the caddy?

Hi Danleff!

Seagate Barracuda 80Gbytes ULTRA ATA

7200.10

S/N: 9QZ0VXFV

ST 380215A

P/N: 9CY011-30
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Maxtor DiamondMax 20 80GB PATA ULTRA ATA

STM3802110A

S/N: 9LR42CY6

P/N: 9DN011-36

3.5 Series 7200.9
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Caddy = StarTech DRW113ATABK (The spare drawer being the DRW113CADBK).
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This is the first time I've looked so closely at the drives, I usually just see the Gbytes part!

I noticed it says on the drives: Use CSL only with an 80 Conductor cable. I am using a rounded cable at the moment but I have several others which I have tried with the caddy. The result is the same: The Seagate works, the Maxtor doesn't.

Could you please tell me how to tell the difference between an 80 and a 40 conductor cable?

Thank you for your reply. I look forward to hearing from you.

All the best! :-)

See this site:
Ultra DMA (80-Conductor) IDE/ATA Cables.

Wilhelmus!

Excellent link, thank you very much!