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- From: ths@uni-paderborn.de (Thomas Schwoeppe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: How do I remove a second IDE drive from an A4000?
- Date: 5 Jan 1996 09:27:15 GMT
- Organization: University of Paderborn, Germany
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <4ciqtj$a7u@news.uni-paderborn.de>
- References: <4cigfb$531@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
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- In article <4cigfb$531@nntp5.u.washington.edu>, vedovatt@u.washington.edu (Philip Vedovatti) writes:
- >In article <4cg73f$kk4@news.uni-paderborn.de>,
- >Thomas Schwoeppe <ths@uni-paderborn.de> wrote:
- [ ... ]
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- >>So does anyone know how to remove that old Conner drive and still be able to
- >>boot? Maybe some HDToolBox magic will do the trick.
- >
- >Very doubtful. Check your jumpers and connections again. I'll bet
- >that's where the problem lies. Some drives have an additional jumper
- >(like Seagate) that you must configure to tell the master drive that it
- >has a slave connected to it.
- >
- That's not the case. The docs for the Quantum drive state that it
- has to be jumpered as master, if it is the only drive.
-
- [ ... ]
- >>BTW, I was able to get around the initial lack of space problem by
- >>turning both harddrives upside down and moving them further to the
- >>back of the bays (had to make new holes in the mounting frames and
- >>cut of a little bit off the slot plates
- [ ... ]
- >
- >I think you could have saved yourself some trouble by just taking off the
- >mounting frame and turning it around (i.e. back to front). I haven't
- >checked myself on my A4000, but someone told me there are additional screw
- >holes further back if you turn the thing around. When I installed my quad
- >speed, I just unscrewed the drive mounting and slid it further back. It's
- >just resting on the mounting frame, but I don't plan on moving my machine
- >around.
- Well I tried turning around the mounting frame but that wasn't enough, and
- it wouldn't have changed the problem with the slot plates. Maybe your friend
- has a slightly different model of the A4000 if there were any. Mine is
- 4 years old by next week.
-
- >Good luck,
- Thank You kindly!
-
- Thomas Schwoeppe <ths@uni-paderborn.de>
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