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I believe you must go into BIOS setup and let the program recognize the new
positions of your hard drive and cable, otherwise if the setting was not at
"Automatic", it would beep.... no hard drive present where it should have
been. Your machine would lock up and not proceed till a few minutes later
(conservative estimate!) and probably show you a message stating no boot
device. The order of the drives on the cable would not matter as long as
one device is jumpered as "Slave" and the other "Master with Slave
present". If you like experimenting, if you have a newer type of board, get
the newer 40 pin - 80 wire cable (UDMA 66,100,133 compatible) and you should
notice a difference in your machines efficiency (assuming you have the older
type installed already).
Howard Rubin
Fortaleza, Brazil
RE: Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 22:39:15 -0500
From: E B Lund <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: ribbon cable installation
Simple question.
I've been monkeying around with hard drives in my case. But, when I
reinstalled original (known working) hard drive, I got some beep codes and
nothing else happened. So, I pulled the ribbon cable and plugged it in the
other outlet on the ribbon and it worked fine.
Is it possible it was just not plugged in all the way, the ribbon was bad,
or does the sequence the drives are linked matter?
Eb Lund
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