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Thread ID: 74185	2006-11-14 05:53:00	Boot From ATAPI-CD-ROM failure...What the?!	Fishy (10540)	Press F1

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499013	2006-11-15 03:29:00	Try setting the jumpers on both hard disks to "CS". Connect them so that the one you wish to be the boot device is furthest from the motherboard connector.	Graham L (2)
499014	2006-11-15 04:49:00	Thankyou so much, that worked fine.	Fishy (10540)
499015	2006-11-15 05:03:00	The general rule seems to be that almost all manufacturers finally manage to correctly implement the standards for a protocol or interface type about the time when it is considered obsolete. The serial and parallel interfaces are well understood now, and usually work. But many new computers don't have them. USB is becoming reasonably reliable (and will probably be obsolete soon). The IDE disk interface is pretty nice, and has worked well (mostly) but the manufacturers have frequently managed to make non-standard standard IDE devices. :D I preferred the master/slave jumpering system, but sometimes that didn't work as expected from a reading of the standard. Adding the "CS" (Cable Select) variant, which works by detecting the presence of a wire at one pin of the disk connector at startup made things even more interesting, as you have found. The M/S selection should override CS, but it doesn't always. (That may be because one or both or your drives needs an extra jumper settting to say "I'm Master, with no slave present", or "Slave present", or ..... to make up for non-compliant logic. ) SATA is becoming widely used ... maybe it will work reliably one day. ;)	Graham L (2)
499016	2006-11-15 05:16:00	Yea I was going to get SATA but the computer was made millenniums before SATA was invented so IDE will do for me. I'm just glad you were able to help me fix it because I only had 140mb left on the old drive :horrified	Fishy (10540)
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