RE: Master / Slave for CD-ROM ??

["Hawes,Timothy Edward \(GEG\)" <haweste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Lee,

That was about where I was getting to re: new cables and trying to get
the CD installed as a slave on the primary channel. Swapping the
secondary cable sounds like a good plan though.

Ever heard of the channel failing on the mobo ? AFAIK the PC has not
been subjected to any heavy-handedness, the old drive just stopped
working.

Cheers,

Tim H.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee  Sent: 08 September 2004 08:22
>
> 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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