On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:28:22 -0500, Andre Nancoz wrote:

>** Reply to message from Duncan Way  on Sun, 04 Mar 2007
>11:08:15 -0600 (CST)
>.
>> Do you have it jumpered as "master", not slave or cable select?
>Yes. Also tried jumpering both to report smaller size and not, neither made a
>difference.
>
>> Are you using an 80 wire cable?
>No. I figured the BIOS would at least recognize the existence of the drive. I
>figured that once that was accomplished or I buy a controller card I would get
>an 80 wire. Would not having 80 wire cause the BIOS it to not see the drive. In
>the BIOS boot options it just mentions that modes 3 and above are not available
>unless using 80 wire, I thought these are performance options. I'm a software
>guy not hardware.
>

I am hardly close to being an 'expert' either.
But, I did mistakenly use a 40wire cable with a new high speed drive and
did not get, 
in my case, a proper bios response.  Switching to the proper cable solved
the problem.

I have found that some drive/interface connections are sensitive to the
cable quality, 
re: interference/crosstalk.

Best I can do,
Duncan Way



------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> 
Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups.  See the new email design.
http://us.click.yahoo.com/lOt0.A/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/9rHolB/TM
--------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 

 
Yahoo! Groups Links

 To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/os2hardware/

 Your email settings:
    Individual Email | Traditional

 To change settings online go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/os2hardware/join
    (Yahoo! ID required)

 To change settings via email:
    mailto:os2hardware-digest{at}yahoogroups.com 
    mailto:os2hardware-fullfeatured{at}yahoogroups.com

 To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    os2hardware-unsubscribe{at}yahoogroups.com

 Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
 

---