🚀 go-pugleaf

...and I hate my computer!  :)

This has been a fiasco.

I've got the stock 40Mb (actually a 43Mb Conner CP342) IDE drive in
this thing.  I decide that with 720Kb free, and a little spare change
in my pocket, I'd upgrade to the Conner 120Mb IDE (CP30104) for $349.

In preparation, I went ahead and upgradedmy 3.2c ROM BIOS to the
latest and greatest version.  No trouble there.  Drive type 61 is the 
perfect match for the new 120Mb drive.

Now, I get a new drive delivered from Hard Drives International.  It
arrives and is dead.  I send it back, get a replacement, and before
bringing it home, I try it at work, as a single drive, on a Gateway
386sx/20Mhz.  Fdisk it (DOS 5), format it, no trouble.  It works like
a charm.  

I then bring it home.  NO GO!  Upon changing the drive type in the
SETUP routine, I get "+++ DRIVE NOT READY +++" or some such.  Even
booting with a floppy (DOS 5) and running FDISK, I'm getting "error
reading fdisk."

The cabling is right.  The pigtail for the power is hooked in. 
All seems normal except the marriage between the two.

What am I overlooking??  There is only ONE jumper block (with three
positions) on the drive.  The system won't recognize the new drive no
matter WHAT position it is in (especially the jumper position it
worked in on the Gateway!). 

Can someone help save this drive and computer from a rapid flight out
of my study window?!  ;)

Many thanks.

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michael regoli
mr@cica.indiana.edu
regoli@iubacs.BITNET
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