Re: Harddrive ide cables

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:02:45 -0400, Blattus Slafaly 0/00 ? ? ?
<boobooililililil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> put finger to keyboard and composed:

Franc Zabkar wrote:

AFAICT, if the cable is installed with motherboard and master
connectors interchanged, then the master HD will always be seeing a
low on its PDIAG pin. This means it would be waiting for a
non-existent slave for 30 seconds until timeout, after which it would
proceed on its own. As for the motherboard, it would think that it was
connected to a 40-way cable.

- Franc Zabkar

It's impossible to get it wrong. The mb end is blue and the other end
has 2 connectors for master and slave drive close together.

That's the only explanation that I could come up with that fit the
symptoms. I had no idea as to your experience or understanding. Sorry
if I offended you.

BTW, you did write that you "thought the wiring was the same; straight
through; on both", which led me to wonder whether you cared about the
orientation of the connectors.

One other thing you might like to try is to select Legacy instead of
Enhanced IDE in your BIOS setup, if it exists. I suspect that it won't
make any difference, though.

- Franc Zabkar
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