Hardware Question

[Pete]

  You will want to go to the maxtor site and get a tech/spech sheet on your
drive.  I have a couple of old maxtor drives and I know what you mean about
the jumpers not being labeled as ma/sl/cs.  On the spec/tech sheet it will
tell how to set the jumpers on the primary HD so it can work whith a slave
drive conected to the same ribbon.  Just a passing thought, did you check to
see in bios whether or not the primary slave drive selection was enabled or
set to auto or not?  Some C D rom drives have a proprietary interface that
connects to a sound card only.  It may or may not have a 40 pin conecter but
it may or may not be IDE. Usually these c d roms came bundled whith a sound
card.  This may be what kind of c d rom you have.  Can you get the model
number off of it?
  Pete

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: Hardware Question


Hi Ed.
I'm usually good with hardware, but this is anoying.  The cdrom is a Mitsumi
4x dated 1995.  The hard drive is a Maxtor 240 mb drive dated 1993.  The
cdrom has jumper pins on the back labeled cable sellect, slave and master.
I pulled the actual thing that you move on the jumpers of an old 1x.  I set
the jumpers at slave on the cdrom and am leaving the hd alone since it
doesn't have labeled jumpers.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Barnes" <ed.barnes at janus.northatlantic.nf.ca>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: Hardware Question


> Hi Alex.
> Just curious if you know the manufacturer of this cd-rom and its model
> number and if you could send it along.
> This may help in one of us or yourself consulting the manufacturers
> regarding the drive's default behaviour as it seems that it is jumperless.
> Also, how old approximately is it, and what speed is it, as you probably
> know, there are less and less certainties with regard to cd-roms when you
> get into 1x, 2x, and 4x teritory or even a bit later.
> I would second Kerry's suggestion regarding that it probably defaults to
> either slave or cable select if it is without jumpers.
> I feel however that if we had more info on the drive, I.E., model and
> manufacturer as mentioned above that this would help us a great deal.
> I should close with a bit of a disclaimer of sorts, despite the fact I
have
> loads of hardware experience in respect to DOS and Windows environments I
> am a linux newbie in the wirse way though I am chomping at the bit.
> Regards,
> Ed Barnes
>
>
> At 06:10 PM 08/03/2002, you wrote:
> >Hi.
> >Thanks for the quick response!
> >Yup.  Thats the way the cdrom looks.  Only problemis, The three sets of
> >jumpers don't have any of those jumper things on them.  They just are
three
> >sets of 2 pins.
> >Found it on the hd thou.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net>
> >To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> >Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 8:34 PM
> >Subject: Re: Hardware Question
> >
> >
> > > I've posted on this before but here we go again:
> > > With the connectors of the cdrom towards you you have:
> > > power on the right, 4-pin.
> > > IDE ribbon connector 40-pin
> > > then a jumper block then redbook audio then digital out and mode
jumpers
> >working your way to the left.
> > > The jumper pins closed to the 40-pin ribbon cable is master,
> > > the next set are slave and the next set are cable select.
> > > If there is a secondary ide controller put the cdrom on that since
> > > some hard drives have different jumperings for single drive
> > > and drive with slave especially western digital.
> > > Otherwise cdrom as slave is on the center of the set of 3 jumpers next
to
> >the ribbon.
> > >
> > > Regards, Kerry.
> > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 06:57:07PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> > > > Hi.
> > > > I am installing a temperary verson of linux on an old 486 box.  To
Get
> >linux from the winblows machine to the 486, I need to install a CDrom.  I
> >hooked it to the same ribbon as the hd since there was room, but it won't
> >boot with the cdrom on the controler.  How do I tell the hd to be master
and
> >cdrom to be slave?
> > > --
> > > Kerry Hoath:  kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or
> >kerry at gotss.spice.net.au
> > > ICQ: 8226547 msn: kerry at gotss.net Yahoo: kerryhoath at yahoo.com.au
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