On Sunday 02 January 2005 08:17 am, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On Sunday 02 January 2005 01:46 am, Alvin Oga wrote: > > set the jumpers on the disk to be "cable select" > > - do NOT tell the disk that it is master or slave > > > > make sure your ide cable has a hole in it so it can tell the system > > that the disk is on the end or middle of the cable > > Thank you alvin! > > I don't see a hole in the ide cable (where should it be?);( What hole do > you mean? Like the hole in the floppy cable with the twisted wires?) and i > am using Western Digital Drives and the computer has Award Bios (asus > a7n8x-x motherboard - amd-xp processor). > > i tried setting both hard drives on the cable to cable select and then the > machine won't boot. I see the problem: I was using a 40 wire cable instead of an 80 wire cable and it didnt like it. As soon as I put a better cable in, it immediately recognized the devices. Thanks for your help in trouble shooting the problem. MItchell
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