On 1999-06-23 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 32>I think you've got a mix of MFM ( or RLL ) and IDE drives there. 32>Hard disks used to use two flat cables: one broad ( sometimes with a 32>twist on a half dozen of the wires, in-between the "C" and "D" 32>connector) plus a small "data" connector about 2 cm wide. 32>Newer IDE drives use just one. 32>These cables are not interchangeable at all - and neither are the 32>hard drive controller cards. ( MFM drives always used a separate 32>card; they were rarely, if ever part of the motherboard, like most 32>IDE systems.) 32>- John T. 32>-- Arachne V1.5a;alpha, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/ Well my HD uses only one cable. The only thing I did was to exchange that cable with a cable of the same width and connector but with two connectors for connecting hard drives. Nothing else and it did not work with two cables I bought from a computer store. Is the cable at fault or is it something else? I did not even try to install the second drive! Eagles may soar, but aardvarks don't get sucked into jet engines. Net-Tamer V 1.10 - Registered To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
