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- From: mr@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli)
- Subject: 286LP *Hates* my New Conner 120Mb IDE Drive
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- Organization: Indiana University
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 06:23:20 GMT
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-
- ...and I hate my computer! :)
-
- This has been a fiasco.
-
- I've got the stock 40Mb (actually a 43Mb Conner CP342) IDE drive in
- this thing. I decide that with 720Kb free, and a little spare change
- in my pocket, I'd upgrade to the Conner 120Mb IDE (CP30104) for $349.
-
- In preparation, I went ahead and upgradedmy 3.2c ROM BIOS to the
- latest and greatest version. No trouble there. Drive type 61 is the
- perfect match for the new 120Mb drive.
-
- Now, I get a new drive delivered from Hard Drives International. It
- arrives and is dead. I send it back, get a replacement, and before
- bringing it home, I try it at work, as a single drive, on a Gateway
- 386sx/20Mhz. Fdisk it (DOS 5), format it, no trouble. It works like
- a charm.
-
- I then bring it home. NO GO! Upon changing the drive type in the
- SETUP routine, I get "+++ DRIVE NOT READY +++" or some such. Even
- booting with a floppy (DOS 5) and running FDISK, I'm getting "error
- reading fdisk."
-
- The cabling is right. The pigtail for the power is hooked in.
- All seems normal except the marriage between the two.
-
- What am I overlooking?? There is only ONE jumper block (with three
- positions) on the drive. The system won't recognize the new drive no
- matter WHAT position it is in (especially the jumper position it
- worked in on the Gateway!).
-
- Can someone help save this drive and computer from a rapid flight out
- of my study window?! ;)
-
- Many thanks.
-
- --
- michael regoli
- mr@cica.indiana.edu
- regoli@iubacs.BITNET
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