[TriLUG] that IDE problem solved!

[Andrew Perrin]

Wow - I would never have figured that out. Would have given up on the
whole project long before trying a new jumper. Congratulations!

ap

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu


On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 gregbrown at mindspring.com 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
> 
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