RE: Master / Slave for CD-ROM ?? - Now SOLUTION :-)

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

Lee, Ho Yin,

Sorry for the delay in posting, but I've now sorted this out. I swapped
the old manky IDE cable for a new one and the CD-ROM worked first time
(drive set to SLave).

Floppy drive required a physically new drive, and a new cable. PC now
back up & running just fine :-)

Thanks for your assistance,

Cheers,

Tim H.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)  Sent: 08 September 2004 08:43
>
> 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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