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- From: ted ooyevaar <tooyevaa@angus.mi.org>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
- Subject: Re: 286LP *Hates* my New Conner 120Mb IDE Drive
- Message-ID: <7a1LqB6w165w@angus.mi.org>
- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 92 23:45:53 EDT
- References: <mr.715587800@ogre>
- Reply-To: tooyevaa@angus.mi.org
- Followup-To: mr@cica.indiana.edu
- Organization: North Star BBS
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- mr@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli) writes:
-
- >
- > ...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
- > ..{ames, rutgers}!iuvax!cica!mr
-
- Yes, If this is going into a Supersport 286 for instance,
- you have to sold a pin from the bottom side of the Motherboard
- to the 40 Pin ide hookup, for Superpsorts 342's use a onboard
- IDE that's not on HD itself unlike regular IDE's, so let me check
- my Board scmatic's and see if I can get you the correct pin.
- Jummper.
- -Ted
-
- --
- ted ooyevaar (tooyevaa@angus.mi.org)
- North Star BBS, Royal Oak, MI --------------------------------------------+-
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