Sorry for posting this here. I've got one fixed drive, vertical on the front
of the machine. the other drives are accessed using a 5 1/4 slot hard drive
caddy. This is a carrier that fits in one of my 5 1/4 slots, and I have
numerous harddrives in drawers that slot into the caddy.
The problem I have is with the ide ribbon cable. It's not long enough to
connect to both drives, because of their locations. I bought the only
extension cable available in the UK a 40 wire one, and had this connected to
the harddrive caddy. The end of the 80 wire cable was conected to the fixed
data drive. I was constantly getting bootup problems, so swapped the
connections to the 2 drives. Now, whichever OS I boot, boots ok with no
problems, but I see on the bootup text complaints about the 40 wire extension
cable that's connected to hdb, like "this is only a 40 wire cable and this
drive will be treated as ata33".
Obviously I need an 80 wire extension to resolve the problem.
Is there anyone on this list living in France, that knows where to get some 80
wire extension cables.
Just a little problem I'd like to resolve.
Any help as always appreciated.
Nigel.