| Subject: UPDATE : IDE issues now worse than SCSI |
Author: FatRakoon (79-121-141-25.xln.managedbroadband.co.uk)
Date: 03-15-2008 15:52
Ok, I have come up with an annoying issues now that I am struggling to avoid.
I have even gone as far as to physically remove the SCSI completely, and I am only using the one IDE device.
I have bought myself 2 new IDE Cables too, and the cables are
1 x 2.5 on both ends
2 x 2.5 on one end, 3.5 on the other
One of the 2.5-3.5 cables I have crimped a new Port lower down in the cable, its about 6 inches now and I have wrapped it in foil, and then cone over it with insulating tape to avoid any kind of shorting.
The cables make absolutely no difference to the issues I am having
The Drives I am using are :-
6GB ( Been using this just fine for the last few months )
10GB ( Also used to be cool and I have planned on copying the 6GB stuff to this to use this one from now on )
Compact Flash - I have 2 solutions to this, a dual adapter and a single
Now, no matter what drive I use, also makes absolutely no difference either except the single CF Card and that one works fine... So, that must contain the answers to my puzzle, but how do I get to it?
Now this is complately weird, but all these devices works great until I went and tried HD Driver 7.8 on the 10GB as a blank HD
Now, previously Iwas only able to gdo 1GB with the Falcon and HDDR8.16 ) but now, using 7.8 I was seeing 2GB Partitions??? - ooh!
So, I went back to 7.8 on the 6GB ( I am doing a few thigns to try to cure my issues and going back to v7 was an option ) and then all of a sudden, I can no longer boot from HD anymore?
It either restarts as soon as the HDDriver message appears, or it bombs out.
The annoying thing here, is that if I bypess boting from the HD, and instead run HDDRiver from the floppies AUTO folder, or from the desktop, its fine.
I just cannot get it to boot from the HD at all? - I have also of course removed the Driver from the HD and doen from fresh with the Floppies driver and I have changed nothing but it just wont go?
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