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Thanks for you lengthy reply.
Just to add to my original post :-

The CD ROM drive is having it's own IDE channel (no sharing). It was
set as master and the cable was properly connected.

I am just thinking... it might be the bad IDE cable. I will try to
swap it with another IDE and see how it is.

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 09:49:01 -0800, Donny Buckman
<b_b_gun@pacbell.net> wrote:

>It sounds like you have a jumper problem if it's an ATA/UIDE CD-Rom drive.
>Make sure that the drive is in the middle connector on the IDE cable and
>that it's set as a slave. Then make sure that the hard drive is on the end
>of the cable and set as master. I have had this problem before. At one of
>the schools I worked at there were dozens of PCs that were built by prison
>inmates who had serious problems figuring out the master/slave relationship
>of UIDE. I have had a lengthy argument over this topic with the engineer at
>my company site who claims that it makes no difference in the IDE scheme
>where the devices are placed on the cable, or what the jumpers are set up
>for. I have done some research myself because I had to... :) it's my job,
>and found that UIDE is a little more finicky about where the devices are
>plugged into the ribbon cable. And while you're putting them in the right
>place, make sure that they are set up properly as master/slave. The weird
>thing about this problem that I found is that it's not constant until the
>problem pops up. In other words I've seen computers run for 2 years with
>faulty wiring on the UIDE-66 bus and all of a sudden bust. Make sure that
>you do this fix quickly the problem can show up as a hard drive failure if
>you're not careful.
>If it's SCSI make sure that you haven't installed a device recently that
>stole its address and that the SCSI chain is properly terminated.


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