Problem 80 wire cable for hard disk

[larry moe 'n curly]

On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:51:31 +0530, ClueLess

Only one drive checked at a time.
The drives checked are all Seagate 80 gb
The original hard disk was working for years with the 80 conductor
cable, correctly mounted - blue end on mobo, hard drive at the end,
set as master.

Only after I checked with another similar hard disk that the problem
started.

I have tried several 80 conductor cables and none work.

All the drives are recognized without exception when using the 40
conductor cable.

I don't know if it matters, but why do you have the HD set to Master
instead of to Cable Select? I thought with a standard 80-wire IDE
cable, the cable itself distinguished Master from Slave, by having the
wire for pin 28 connected only to the Master. I've had problems when
I didn't choose Cable Select. OTOH with external drive enclosures
that contained a short 80-wire IDE cable, Cable Select didn't work
because the signal lines for the cable were wired just like a 40-wire
cable's, so the drive had to be set to Master.

 

[Rod Speed]

Desk Rabbit wrote

Rod Speed wrote

Wriggle, squirm.. ROFL!

You never ever could bullshit your way out of a wet paper bag.

<reams of your puerile silly shit any 2 year old could leave for dead flushed where it belongs>