[PLUG] OT: hardware problem (on a linux box)

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Feb 16 08:01:02 UTC 2004


On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, AthlonRob wrote:

> What happens if you set the jumper for Master?

Rob,

  This is the first thing I did. Not detected.

> What happens when it is the only drive in the box?

  Don't know. I haven't tried this.

> Could the power connection be bad?

  Let me quickly check .... Nope. Same results when on a different plug.

> I never jumper drives for Cable Select.  In my experience, it doesn't
> work.  Jumper for Master if there is a slave present, jumper for slave if
> it is the slave, or don't jumper it at all if it is alone, although I
> usually leave them jumpered for Master in that situation, anyway.

  I, too, have never used cable select. But, I've also not had a new drive
not been recognized by the BIOS before. So, I tried everything I could think
of to isolate the source of the problem.

  Guess it's back to ENU this afternoon.

Thanks,

Rich

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