Thanks for your quick response, and thank you also to the moderator who
quickly approved my post.

Sorry I wasn't clear on the timeline.  Yes, it did work properly as a
secondary slave on the new computer, and now it won't.  Nothing changed
between working and not:  When it failed, the computer wouldn't boot, our
first indication of a problem.

To continue with your response as well as John Kemp's:
Yes, it was originally set up with CS.  I tried all combinations; secondary
master (on the new computer) and primary master as well as primary slave
(on the old computer) and cable select in both positions (master and slave)
on the cable.   Jumper settings changed/checked/confirmed all the way.

At 08:09 AM 12/10/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Paul,
>
>I can't quite figure out the timeline of events you describe. Did it work
>once as a secondary slave on the new computer, now it won't? Did anything
>else change since the time it worked? Are the jumpers set properly
>(master/slave)?
>
>Russ Poffenberger
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>Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard drive failure--no 80 conductor cable
>
>
>Hello PCbuilders:
>
>I was a subscriber years ago while teaching a PC hardware course at a tech
>school, so I know this is the place for the straight scoop on my problem.
>
>I have an old (couple years, maybe) Seagate 40 GB hard drive that was
>running Windows 98 on my old PC.  Got a new Compaq a couple of months ago
>and once it was set up, I installed the old Seagate as the secondary slave
>to copy all our data over to the new drive that came with the Compaq.
>
>I had copied what I knew we needed, and told my wife to get what she needed.
>"No big hurry," I said.  In the past, I used to have two drives installed at
>all times on our system.  When Windows got ornery I would wipe out the
>secondary drive, format it, and move cables/jumpers as necessary to make it
>the primary master then re-install Windows and applications.  What was the
>primary (boot) became the secondary drive and we copied data over at our
>leisure.  I'd repeat the process in a year or so.  Worked great for years!
>
>Well, to our surprise, our new system wouldn't boot.  Just hung on boot with
>a blank screen.  I tried everything I knew to track down the culprit and
>eventually saw the error "Secondary Slave, No 80 conductor cable" (or
>something like that).  I knew that wasn't really the problem, but gave it an
>80-conductor cable just to see if it would be happy.  Tried it out on the
>old PC (now in my son's room).  No luck (also hung on boot, -Win98 BTW).  Oh
>well, guess we don't have the old drive any more.  "You got all the stuff
>you needed, right?" I ask (assume, bad me!).  Wrong.
>
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