On Thursday 07 October 2004 2:09 pm, mtm@cmp.uea.ac.uk wrote:
Can anybody offer any insights inbto what's going on and how it may be cured?
That Controller is a UDMA/100 so make sure that you are using the proper 80 conductor cables rather than the 40 conductor ones as found in old PC's (you can tell the 80 conductor ones apart as they generally have much finer ribs on the ribbon)
If you are running a single drive then it should be at the last connector on the cable, do not have it on the middle connector with the end of the cable left disconnected.
If some bright spark has cut down the cables to make the case nice and smart then discard them (they won't work very well)
Double check master/slave jumpers and possibly avoid cable select (although nearly all 80 conductor cables support this)
In the non booting scenario, what happens exactly ?