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From:   The Doc [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Friday, July 02, 1999 4:20 PM
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Subject:        [PCBUILD] Seagate ATAPI Tape Problem

I recently upgraded my son's computer to an Abit BH6 motherboard with
PII-400 with 128 Meg Ram.  On the first IDE channel we had a new Western
Digital 8.4 Gig hard drive and a 3.0 G WD.  The secondary channel has as
Master an IDE Zip drive. This setup works fine. The operating system is Win
98.  We have all IDE channels set to auto detect.

[Michael Gray]  The instructions that came with my Zip disk said to NOT have the drive autodetected. I recently had to reinstall win98 and haven't reinstalled my zip and Sparq drives, but they were working fine before. I've got 6 IDE drives hooked to my system (2 hard drives master and slave on the first motherboard slot, a CD-RW and standard CD as master and slave on the second slot and the zip and Sparq hooked to the connector on my Soundblaster.)  

We removed the Seagate tape drive (will get model number if needed, it is
one that uses the 4 Gig Travan backup tapes).  The tape was working fine
when we removed it from the old chassis.  The manual says to connect it to
the secondary channel and if another device is on the channel to make it
the slave.  We located the jumpers for both the  Zip drive and set it to
master (it worked ok alone with that configuration) and then set the
Seagate to slave with its jumpers.  When we rebooted neither the ZIP drive
nor the tape unit were recognized by the BIOS.  I then just removed the
data cable from the tape unit and rebooted.  All ok, Zip drive shows up.  I
then disconnected the Zip drive, jumpered the tape unit as only device on
channel and re-booted.  The tape unit was not recognized by the BIOS.  The
computer pauses a relatively long time while trying to detect what is on
the second channel when the tape unit is connected but then says nothing
connected.

Any clues on where to start our search?

[Michael Gray]  Are you positive the jumpers are correct? Seems like the logical place to start since that's the only thing you seem to have changed.

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