Quoting Viktor Rosenfeld ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Anyway, considering that > - I can't boot from CDs anymore using that drive (it works with the same > BIOS settings and CD, but with another drive) > - it worked before I used this machine to bootstrap another one > (exchanging boards, hard disks, and stuff) > - everything works fine, when I put in another CD-ROM drive > - it won't work, when I put this drive on the primary IDE controller or > connect it to another board
Hopefully it could be that you're not setting the jumpers (you don't mention them), i.e. master/slave. Hopefully it isn't that you killed the data interface with static when you were exchanging boards and stuff. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.