Wow - I would never have figured that out. Would have given up on the whole project long before trying a new jumper. Congratulations!
ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ..and was it a weird one!! > > The problem was the figgin' JUMPER on the master/slave pins.. YES!! THE > JUMPER! > > The jumper was the only thing that remained the same throughout all my tests. > I chanced the CD-ROM a number of times but moved the jumper with it each time. > I finally hit the mothball fleet of old drives and grabbed a different jumper > after changing drives, CD-ROMS, IDE cables, and everything else I could think > of, put the "new" jumper on "slave" on the CDROM and VOLIA! It worked! > > I laughed for about 30 minutes. > > What a trip. > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
