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mr@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli) writes:

> 
> ...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.
> 
> --
> michael regoli
> mr@cica.indiana.edu
> regoli@iubacs.BITNET
> ..{ames, rutgers}!iuvax!cica!mr

  Yes, If this is going into a Supersport 286 for instance,
 you have to sold a pin from the bottom side of the Motherboard
 to the 40 Pin ide hookup, for Superpsorts 342's use a onboard
 IDE that's not on HD itself unlike regular IDE's, so let me check
 my Board scmatic's and see if I can get you the correct pin.
  Jummper.
   -Ted

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