The message 200510131112.39737.matt@mpcontracting.co.uk from Matt Parker matt@mpcontracting.co.uk contains these words:
On Thursday 13 October 2005 10:49, Anthony Anson wrote:
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from Matt Parker matt@mpcontracting.co.uk contains these words:
Can you set all the IDE devices to "cable select"? I don't normally do this myself in normal running, but it would let the devices sort out amongst themselves how they'd like to operate - a useful debugging step I think.
Do you mean make-up another cable, or just use ordinary IDE unmodified cables and set the devices to cable-select?
If it rearranges things to its satisfaction, it might reallocate C: and not want to boot...
On the jumpers on the drives you should see M/S/CS (master/slave/cable select). This will mean that the devices negotiate their IDE master/slave status between themselves automatically. You'll need to set all the channels to "auto" in the BIOS as well.
If you make sure the bootable HD is on IDE channel 1 (physically, on the motherboard) then that should automatically be picked as the boot device.
No new cables required.
My reply to this bounced for some reason - let's see if this one does, too...
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The message 200510131112.39737.matt@mpcontracting.co.uk from Matt Parker matt@mpcontracting.co.uk contains these words:
On the jumpers on the drives you should see M/S/CS (master/slave/cable select). This will mean that the devices negotiate their IDE master/slave status between themselves automatically. You'll need to set all the channels to "auto" in the BIOS as well.
The two which are set to cable-select are so jumpered - I did so with my own fair tweezers. I also performed surgery on the IDE cable - see below.
If you make sure the bootable HD is on IDE channel 1 (physically, on the motherboard) then that should automatically be picked as the boot device.
Right.
No new cables required.
Er - the one on IDE1 forces master and slave - No28 is broken between the board and the two connectors, and No28 is then connected between the Master connector and No40 (ground)
However, I have just unearthed another unmolested IDE cable which might be long enough. (The box is a full tower.)
Oh, in my bitbox I found another which I acquired I know not where: the board-end connector is blue, the first device connector is grey and the end one is black. One of the middle pair of sockets on each is blanked-off, and there are (or there seem to be) double the number of wire elements in the cable. It says: LIAN YU RU AWM2678 VW-1 105°C 150V 30AWG E128076-C - if that's any help.