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Article #737Re: Help - "SET MULTIPLE fail!"
From: B.E. Johnson
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 1995 09:47
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 1995 09:47
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In <3enqh2$u0m@godzilla.zeta.org.au> michaele@zeta.org.au (Michael
Eglington) writes:
>
>I'd appreciate any help anyone has to offer.
>
>I have acquired a second hard drive (a 540 Mb Quantum) which I wish to
>install as a slave to my 420 Mb Conner master. The only documentation
>that I have is the jumper setting descriptions on a piece of paper
>stuck onto the disks themselves. The settings for the Quantum seem
>pretty straight forward, but for the Conner they are very cryptic.
>According to the piece of paper, the jumper settings for the Conner
>come in three flavours, viz single, master and slave. The jumper
>settings for the master and single flavours are described as the same,
>which clearly is not true. What makes it more difficult is that the
>pins on the board are not marked anyway.
>
It is normal for some drives to have same setting for Single and Master,
different for Slave. Sorry, don't have the settings for Conners. Perhaps
someone will surface with them. FTP site?
>I've tried a number of different combinations, but I'm a bit leery of
>delving too much into the unknown in case I break something. The
>closest I've got to success is on bootup, just before I get the
>screen showing my machine's HW configuration, I get a "SET MULTIPLE
>fail !" message. I can access the disks fine under DOS but there is
>another application which now doesn't recognise ANY of the disks (the
>Conner has logical partitions).
>
>Does anyone have the correct jumper settings for the Conner (a diagram
>would be great!).
>
>Much obliged,
>Michael.
>--
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>
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