If the computer/mobo uses cable select, the position of the drives on the cable is critical.  You can see on your drives that the jumper will be in position for it.

>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?
>
>

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