On 8/18/05 8:27 AM, John Alonso of [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent


>    After switching drives many times on my Beige G3
> Desktop the drives would mount intermitantly. On the
> off chance the original 40 wire IDE cables were
> damaged I replaced both with 80 wire IDE cables (being
> frugal I would have been happy with 40 wire cables but
> none were available) and it completely solved my
> problem.
> 
> So I doubt it's the cables.

Indeed it was. Switching the ATA66 cable with another did the trick.
Thanks to all for pondering the issue.
Best regards,
Dana



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