Thanks again to everyone for their helpful advice and suggestions. I got the box to boot off a rescue disk and I've re-installed. Now I'll see if I can sort out those cables and jumpers...
mark http//www.users.bigpond.com/m487396 --- Ken Foskey <foskey@ .com.au> wrote: > On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 09:26, Mark A. Bell wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > Can someone recomend a Linux-friendly repair shop? > > Preferably near Glebe or public transport. > > Mark, > > Hardware tips for newbies. > > The cables from the mother board or ide controller (not that old is > it!). The cable have a red line sometimes this is very faint but it > is > always there. Check that the marked edge is plugged next to pin 1. > This is always marked on the board but really hard to see sometimes. > > The other end the red line goes against the power connector on drives > and CD drives. Check that you have done this. > > You now have three drives and two cables. One of the drives will > have > to be a slave drive on one of the cables. Check the CD (generally > easier to work on!) there will be a jumpoer on the back with three > pairs > of pins MA (master) SL (slave) CS (cable select, no-one does this!). > > Switch it to slave and share that cable with the hard drive. > > Go into the bios setup and detect the hard drives again. If you can > boot off CD the bios will detect the CD as well. If it does not then > you have done something wrong. > > Hope this helps, > KenF > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug ===== mark a. bell http://www.users.bigpond.com/m487396 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
