[Gllug] IDE drive detection

[Christopher Hunter]

On Monday 28 Jul 2003 7:46 pm, Walid Shaari wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 21:27, Mike Brodbelt wrote:

> > I've swapped the IDE cable, with no effect. I've changed the jumpers
> > from master/slave to cable select on both drives, with no effect. Both
> > drives can be felt to spin up fine. I'm now confused. Anyone seen this
> > before.
>
> Something like that happened to me for a faulty power supply.

Also had this problem due to an iffy PSU - it destroyed the controller cards 
on two drives.  Luckily, Fujitsu (makers of the drives) had replacement cards 
in stock, and I got the drives going again!

Chris


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