On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Kent West wrote: > "Chrisopher D. Judd" wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > > > > [ snip ] > > > > > > : I tried rebooting. The floppy light comes on straight away (and stays > > > : on) and the system tries to boot from the floppy but fails, so goes on > > > : to the hard drive. > > > > > > Sounds like the cable is reversed. Flip it over at the drive, and/or at > > > the controller. > > > > > > > Note that flipping at the controller does not give the same > > result as flipping at the drive if you're using the connector which > > has part of the cable twisted. > > > > Flipping at the controller can also cause problems if you've got more > than one device attached to the cable. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Regardless, make sure that the striped side of the cable lines up with both pin 1 on the drive and controller. And yes, from my experience the problem is that the cable is flipped (which end, I don't remember). JDM -------- Jason D. Michaelson | Debian GNU/ o http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / / _ _ _ _ __ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / | /____/ /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/_\ http://www.tc.umn.edu/ | ~mich0101 | ...because lockups are for convicts... Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the other end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer
