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Ide Woes
Name: Jeffrey Cullihall Date: November 13, 2003 at 15:30:11 Pacific OS: Winxp CPU/Ram: XP 2000+/512
Comment:
I have a fujitsu 20 gig HD that all of a sudden will not boot if its on an ide cable with another device. If its on a shared cable then the system hangs at bootup at "detecting ide devices". If its on a separate ide it boots fine..and yes i have master/slave jumpers set correctly.
Name: Jake Date: November 13, 2003 at 16:30:28 Pacific
Reply:
In addition to being jumpered correctly, newer (ATA 100, for sure) systems require that the master be on the end of the cable, slave in the middle, and the long end plugged into the motherboard. I can't imagine a conflict hanging the system, though.
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Response Number 2
Name: mark Date: November 13, 2003 at 16:45:59 Pacific
Reply:
I don't know about Fujitsu, but I know that Western Digital drives have different plugging for their drives if the drive is alone on a cable or not.
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Response Number 3
Name: TopFarmer Date: November 13, 2003 at 18:34:29 Pacific
Reply:
HI if the system had been working and no hardware or software was added before problem, it is possible the other IDE device is bad.
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