RE: Master / Slave for CD-ROM ??

["Lee" <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, now this sounds like it could be a problem I had a few years a badly
made IDE lead...

Check that the pin1 mark on the motherboard definitely has the stripe-ed
side of the IDE cable connected to it and that the pin1 on the drive
definitely has the other stripe-ed side connected to it...

The problem I was was that one of the connectors on the IDE cable had been
put on backwards, so with the keyway/notch you could only connect it to the
drive backwards, hence no drive or boot. Ten seconds with a knife removed
the notch, so it would go in the right way round :)

Lee

-----Original Message-----
From: Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG) [mailto:haweste@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 08 September 2004 06:56
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Master / Slave for CD-ROM ??


Lee & Ho Yin,

Thanks for your suggestions yesterday, unfortunately I still had no joy
:-((
The CD-ROM is on the secondary channel and I've tried the jumper in
*every* position and the machine still won't boot. The only time it does
is when I unplug the CD drive totally.

I'm beginning to wonder if it wasn't a CD drive failure in the first
place, but something else instead :-((

Any thoughts ?

Thanks,

Tim H.


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