Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:13:05 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anke Otto) Subject: Solution - L50 / L70 won't recognise new harddisk Regarding the last two questions on problems with new harddisks I thought I resent my old mail about how I resolved this problem on my L70. Hope this helps Anke ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: L50 not recognizing two new 6GB Toshiba drives Author: Anke Otto at ITA_CIVIC_CC Date: 18/07/00 12:55 Hi there, I was about to report back to the list about my successful resolution of this problem in my 70CT, but was called into a meeting, so... I also bought a MK6411MAT Toshiba drive. And with Arndt's help managed to get it to work! Many thanks, Arndt!! As Arndt says in his post today, the problem is that the drive defaults to Cable-Select and there is not obvious way to force the drive into master mode. The available jumpers do not address this problem. I actually had two drives with this problem, both from Toshiba - one 1GB, one 6.4GB - the solution below cured both drives. The only way to do this, appears to be to connect pins 28 and 30 on the IDE connector together with a thin piece of wire (or solder it - if you have the right equipment). The pin layout can be found on the Toshiba-europe page: http://resource.toshiba-europe.com/europe/diskproducts/jumper/hdd/mkjump.jpg The top row of jumpers are uneven numbers 1-43, the bottom row are numbers 2-44 [with the gap being 'pin 20'] Pin 1 is marked on the drive - near the gap to the jumper pins. Make sure the wire makes contact with both pins propperly and does not touch any other pins or contacts on the green drive board - I initially used a wire that was too thick and stood away from the pins once the drive was pushed into the machine - in the end I used a bit of solder wire as it is very soft and can be laid tightly around the two pins - not sure how long it'll last, but it works to start with until I plug up the courage to solder it into place. I put a piece of insulation tape over the green board edge to stop the wire touching any contacts. That's it. [NOTE 30/8/00: the solder wire didn't last long - I have now replaced it with some very thin copper wire and that's been good for the last few months] Hope this makes sense. Drop me a line if you need further help. Anke ________________________________________________________________________ The information in this email (and any attachment) may be for the intended recipient only. If you know you are not the intended recipient, please do not use or disclose the information in any way and please delete this email (and any attachment) from your system. ________________________________________________________________________ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------UNSUBSCRIBE------- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe --------UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **************************************************************
