*click, whirrr* cannabalization of dinosaur failed... *beeeoup* the three way
connector thingy is.. *squueak* funky. it... umm.. err.. isnt.. the end attached to
the motherboard is normal, as is the end connected to the puny 300 meg hard drive..
the third end is.. fun-kay.. it is... umm.. welll... GIMPED OUT.. it is like, blocky..
it is more of a block with a little crevice in the center for the spikes.. and it is a
bit shorter in length.. darn! i gotta learn the technical names for these things!! you
are probably scratching your head right now trying to figure out my description!!
sorry! ;(
also, i dont think linux detects the ultra ide controller thingy.. no matter what hard
drive i attach it to, it wont detect it... where can i get one of those neetoh three
way connectors? any computer store?
dank you veddy veddy much.. (i'm a bit hyper.. i just played house with my sisters
daughter, and boy, was that kid hyper as hell! bit infectious.. wot wot? 8)
anyways..)
thanks,
dominic.
Omit Expungermier wrote:
> whee!! time to cannabalize the 486! stupid compaq didnt give me a three connector
> cable.. but i remember seeing it on the 486.. 8) thank you thank you thank you!!!
>
> as soon as i dissect the 486, i'm gonna.. *sniff* FORMAT and then resetup win95
> and try linux!!! time to make the leap! thank you! hopefully, i'll be contacting
> you again through netscape on linux!!!
>
> thank you muches and muches!
> dominic
>
> Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> > At 11:00 PM 5/17/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> > >yeah.. i have two different hard drives, both E/IDE, and they are not on the
> > >same cable.. one is attached by cable to a Ultra IDE Controller thing, (the
> > >maxtor) the other attached by a cable to the motherboard.. what do you mean
> > >by the end connector?thank you sooo much for helping me! thank you thank you
> > >thank you!
> > >dominic
> >
> > The 40-wire data cable for the hard drive should have 3 connectors on it.
> > One plugs into the socket on the mother board or the interface board and
> > the other two are for drives. The master drive should go on the end
> > connector and the slave drive should go on the middle one.
> >
> > Every drive has a set of 3 pairs of pins which are used to configure the
> > drive. Many of these sets are along the back edge between the data and
> > power connectors; others are on the circuit board. The pins are jumpered to
> > designate the drive as Master, Slave or Cable select. The latter case is
> > usually not used, but *should* configure the drive based on its position on
> > the cable.
> >
> > Check your two drives to ensure they are configured properly. You should
> > be able to put them on the same cable and system connector, but that's not
> > required.
> >
> > As far as I know (AFAIK), there's E/IDE and UDMA. The IDE and EIDE drives
> > are functionally equivalent. The Ultra Direct Memory Access (UDMA) take a
> > different connector, but are backward-compatible with the EIDE drives and
> > can live on the same cable/connector.
> >
> > >ps what does HTH stand for? ;)
> >
> > Hope This Helps.
> >
> > Rich
> >
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