Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
> When I tried to copy the files from my old computer which died > back in November onto this new computer by putting the hard > drives** from the old one into this one in the secondary > position, something strange and not-wonderful happened. The > first one worked fine. The second one (the primary drive from > the computer that died), though, b-i-g problem: now, it, the > secondary drive from that machine (with all my astronomy/teaching > stuff and more), and the hard drive which came in this new > machine all are considered "Unknown device" by this machine.
Are your master/slave/cable select jumpers set up correctly on the drives? Also, is your power supply strong enough to power all your drives?
> (2) the computer and everything associated with it (including > the phone line) is plugged into a "power center" with surge > protection which itself is plugged into a surge-protected > power strip which is plugged into the wall, and AFAIK those > surge protectors are working,
Are you getting enough juice through two surge protectors hooked together to power your machine? Maybe try plugging your computer into one surge protector, that's plugged directly into the wall. ______________________________________________________________________ Steve Sloan ......... Huntsville, Alabama =========> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brin-L list pages .............................. http://www.brin-l.org Science Fiction-themed online store ..... http://www.sloan3d.com/store Chmeee's 3D Objects .................... http://www.sloan3d.com/chmeee 3D and Drawing Galleries .................. http://www.sloansteady.com Software ................ Science Fiction, Science, and Computer Links Science fiction scans ......................... http://www.sloan3d.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
