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This is incredibly obvious but I had something similar happen and the power
for the drive wasnt plugged in...
James M Esham
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel M. Blackman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 10:39 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] A drive doesn't work
> For unknown reasons I cannot access my A drive. I get the message that "A
> drive is not ready". I have a disk in it, but it will not display. It
> isn't the drive because I bought a new one and had the same problem. I
> bought a new cable and that didn't help. It shows up as working in device
> manager in Windows and in safe mode. The BIOS displays it during the
boot.
> I checked to make sure the cable was pin 1 to pin 1. If it were the cable
> or the connection the BIOS would show "drive failure". The only thing I
can
> think of now is that the mobo connector died, but I would think that would
> give me a message "drive failure" during the boot. If it isn't the drive
or
> the cable or the connection, or the mobo, what is left to check? Any
ideas
> will be investigated. Thanks, Joel
>
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