hi, why have you got it in cable select ? i thought u are supposed to
have it as master and slave ?
have u tried it like that ?
mark k
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> Arfa Daily wrote:
>> Here's one I've never had before. Earlier this week, my wife informed
me
>> that a business-related CD ROM that she uses regularly on my machine,
was
>> failing to read. She was right. Further investigation revealed that the
>> machine, a Dell, could no longer see my 250GB data drive either. This
>> drive is a Seagate, and was replaced probably a little over a year ago,
>> because its predecessor, which had been in there a long time, had begun
>> dying with nasty noises and erratic reads. Both the CD ROM drive and
the
>> Seagate, are on IDE channel 1, in cable select format.
>>
>> My first suspicion was that something had happened to the mother
board's
>> IDE driver IC, but the Windoze diagnostic said that it was ok. Further
>> checks disconnecting stuff, showed the problem to be the Seagate drive
>> that was hanging up the channel 1 IDE bus. As soon as it was
>> disconnected, the CD ROM drive came back on line.
>>
>> I got a new 320GB drive from Maplin's for 49 quid (how good a deal is
>> that ?) and was able to restore its contents from the external backup
>> drive that I have, and which does a backup automatically every night.
>>
>> I've never had a drive fail in this way before, problems usually being
>> motor or bearing related. Anyone else had it ?
>>
>> Arfa
>
> Hosed controller board, probably shorting a few data lines.
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