Re: cdrom no medium found

[Aaron <aaron greyhour com>]

i believe it is jumpered as a master

cuz you're right

it was on the same cable as the original drive

but I thought we (my friend and I) took care of that

i will check it tonight



Aaron
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On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Mick Mearns wrote:

> 
> 
> --- Aaron <aaron greyhour com> wrote:
> > 
> > the cdrom was working fine until sometime after I
> > added my new harddrive 
> >BIOS autodetect comes up cdrom every time
> 
> Hi;
>   In the original configuration were both the hard
> drive and the cdrom on the same cable? If so then the
> cdrom was jumpered as a slave. When you move it to the
> secondary controller you need to make it a MASTER.
>   Look in the CMOS to see where it lives, it should be
> the third drive, with no empty slots above it.
>   So: first ide drive c: (hda), second ide drive
> d:(hdb), then the cdrom drive e:(hdc)
>  As far as cables go; motherboarrd IDE cables plug in
> facing the same direction as all the other motherboard
> cables. The same thing goes for plug-in controllers,
> with floppy and serial cables, just orient the IDE
> cable the same way. Just make sure that you don't miss
> a whole row of pins. Look and run your fingernail
> across BOTH sides of the plugged-in cable. You should
> not feel a 'picket fence' of pins. Just smooth
> plastic. It used to be possible to miss a row at the
> drive on older machines, but now its harder to do.
>   If this doesn't fix it then let us know more about
> the machine. 
>   Motherboard type and number, BIOS type and date,
> type of hard drive(s), type of cdrom drive. Ask the
> guy to loan or make you a DOS boot disk with the
> correct CD driver on it. You will also need mscdex.com
> and a config.sys that loads it,and see if it works
> under dos.
>                 Mick M.
> ===
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