Re: Flirting with the dark side

On 9/25/05 7:38 PM, in article
1127691502.732771.162000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dan-the K"
<kaliushkin@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Christopher Noyes wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Did you try Cable Select as a jumper setting? All of our HP's (when we
>> had them before 2000) needed the CD-ROM drive set at CS (cable select).
>>
>> -CN
>>
>>
>> On 9/23/05 8:58 PM, in article
>> 1127523497.293011.215070@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dan-the K"
>> <kaliushkin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> My project with an HP Vectra VE 5/75 is over, unsuccessfully. :-(
>>>
> ...
>>> Dan
>>>
>
> How do I set cable select? Where is it set?
>
> According to documentation,
>
> "Disk Controllers
> · HP Vectra VL 5/xx series 3 PC
> The integrated flexible disk controller supports two flexible disk
> drives. The integrated
> Enhanced IDE hard disk controller is on the PCI bus and dedicated for
> hard disk drives.
> This is the grey connector on the system board. The cable has two
> connectors, allowing
> two Fast IDE hard disks to be connected.
> The second IDE controller is on the ISA bus and is dedicated to CD-ROM
> drives. This is the
> red connector on the system board. The cable has one connector allowing
> one CD-ROM to
> be connected.
>
> · HP Vectra VE 5/xx PC
> The integrated flexible disk controller supports two flexible disk
> drives. The integrated
> Enhanced IDE hard disk controller is on the PCI bus and dedicated for
> hard disk drives.
> This is the grey connector on the system board. The cable has two
> connectors, allowing
> two Fast IDE hard disks to be connected."
>
> My computer only has one IDE connector. So it looks like the VE 5/75
> doesn't support a CD-ROM, the HP Vectra VL 5/xx series 3 PC does.
>
> I also discovered that memory can go up to 128MB. It only has 16MB
> now.If I were to use this computer, I'd want to make an investment.
>
> Dan
>


Hello,

Cable Select is set on the CD-ROM drive (usually it is displayed as CS on
the 3 position jumper block for setting Master/Slave).

-CN

.

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