I have a MK6014MAP 2.5-inch hard disk drive and I have a problem with it. I'm unable to make this drive to work with my notebooks. I have a TOSHIBA Satellite Pro 430CDT notebook and a Toshiba TECRA 8000 notebook. On both notebooks, the symptoms are the same.

The symptoms are the drive spins up, HD light remains lighted for about a minute at power on, TP diagnostics find no drive, TP low level format routine finds no drive, and Road Warrior's IDEINFO.EXE program says there is no drive 0 -- only drive 1:

>IDE/AT Drive Identify Program 1.0
>(c) Copyright 1991 by Thomas J. Newman
>All Rights Reserved.
>
>The System BIOS reported 0 hard drive(s).
>A scan of the hardware found 1 IDE/AT hard drive(s).
>
>*** Warning: Only one drive found and it's addressed as Drive 1.
>Drive 1 Information
>
> Cylinders........... 12416
> Heads............... 15
> Sectors per track... 63
> Bytes per track..... 0
> Bytes per sector.... 0
> Buffer Size......... 0 Kb
> ECC bytes........... 46
>
> Model Number........ TOSHIBA MK6014MAP
> Firmware Revision... N2.10 A
> Serial Number....... Z9M39201T
>
> Drive capacity...... 1697 Mb

Except drive capacity wich is 6GB, all the parameters are correct. Any other programs (fdisk for example), does not find any drive installed
in my notebooks, so I am unable to install this HDD drive. How can I make this drive to work with my notebooks?
Master/Slave settings doesn't solve the problem.

Is it the drive defective? A firmware update will solve the problem?

Please help. I do not have enough money to buy another HDD drive.
I do apreciates any help that you can give to me.

I've connected the hdd on a desktop computer using a 2.5"-3.5" HDD adapter. It seems to work fine but only as master and single on a IDE channel. It still doesn't work on my notebooks. Any ideea?