On 19 Feb 98 at 20:04, David Nasser wrote:

> I pulled this ancient Connor 170mb HD out of my old 486 machine. It was
> made around 1991, is a hoary looking thing with semi-cipherable
> jumper diagram, etc. But it gave me good service for 5+ years.
> And it ain't over yet (I hope). Mostly I just need to copy some
> data from it.
>
> I'm trying to install it in my socket 7 system with Tyan S1571 TX
> mobo. It failed to install as Primary  slave, Secondary Master, etc.
> I can't get it to autodetect at all. None of the 40+ HD settings
> in my Award v4.51 pg bios _appeared_ to be correct. Quoting chapter
> and verse on the mnfgr's parameters (cyls, sectors, etc) didn't
> seem to help. Also set PIO down to 1 and 2: "nobody home".
>
> Hey, its just an IDE drive! My TX mobo supports IDE stuff circa '91,
> doesn't it? Doesn't it??

  I've found listings for 170MB drives from Conner listed in IDE and
SCSI forms.  Might be able to check details if you have the model
number handy.

> I figger its something silly, but I can't think of what.  All
> suggestions welcome.

  About 3/4 of the times I've seen symptoms like this, no power lead
was plugged into the drive.  Is that possible?

David G