[iyonix-support] Re: 4 IDE drives: Success
- From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 23:21:01 +0100
In message of 7 Apr, David R Lane <D_Lane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> All 4 drives now work after power on, with the following arrangement.
>
> IDE bus 0 (primary) IDE bus 1 (secondary)
> Master Slave Master Slave
>
> Main Hard Drive DVDRW Second HD CDRW
>
> For the record:
>
> The main HD and the CDRW are the original ones fitted by Castle
> (first batch of Iyonix PCs in 2002), the second HD is a Maxtor
> Diamond Plus 9 80GB ATA/133 and the DVDRW is a LITEON SOHW-1693S23C.
>
> Perhaps this will be of help to others contemplating having these
> drives.
Thanks for these results. Yes, I will try this wo see if it gets my
DVDRW working consistently at power on.
> Also, it is easier to fit the cables round each other if at least
> one of them is a round cable (as opposed to a flat ribbon cable).
Can you name your supplier of round cables?
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Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@xxxxxxxxx
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