Sorry for posting this here. I've got one fixed drive, vertical on the front of the machine. the other drives are accessed using a 5 1/4 slot hard drive caddy. This is a carrier that fits in one of my 5 1/4 slots, and I have numerous harddrives in drawers that slot into the caddy.
The problem I have is with the ide ribbon cable. It's not long enough to connect to both drives, because of their locations. I bought the only extension cable available in the UK a 40 wire one, and had this connected to the harddrive caddy. The end of the 80 wire cable was conected to the fixed data drive. I was constantly getting bootup problems, so swapped the connections to the 2 drives. Now, whichever OS I boot, boots ok with no problems, but I see on the bootup text complaints about the 40 wire extension cable that's connected to hdb, like "this is only a 40 wire cable and this drive will be treated as ata33". Obviously I need an 80 wire extension to resolve the problem. Is there anyone on this list living in France, that knows where to get some 80 wire extension cables. Just a little problem I'd like to resolve. Any help as always appreciated. Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
