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Re: [LUG] Hardware question

 

Ray Smith writes:
>> 
>> Hi, My motherboard has tweo IDE sockets, I expect like a lot 
>> of mbs. Problem 
>> is the secondary IDE slot seems completly useless!. I have 
>> yet to get any 
>> device to work through it.<snip>
>> Cheers, Jonny D,

> Have you tried a different IDE cable. Ive seen a lot of problems solved just
> by doing that ? 
>
....actually no, I havn't. I'll give that a go.
> Also if you are trying to connect two drives with the same cable have you
> tried just one as master of the first ide connector of the cable ?
Yes, no joy.
THanks for the suggestions, JOn. 



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