Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:15:44 +0200
From: Arndt Schoenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: L50 not recognizing two new 6GB Toshiba drives
On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 07:30:55AM -0700, E. Smith wrote:
>
> I've recently tried two new MK6411MAT Toshiba drives in my L50. It doesn't
> recognize either of them. It is working fine with a used MKD6412MAT right
> now, but it sure doesn't like those 6411's.
>
> Before I get into the details of exactly how these drives don't work, I'd
> like to solicit anyone else's experience (good and bad) with L50s and the
> MK6411 drive. I'm running BIOS 6.50.
Maybe you have the same problem as Anke Otto ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
which has been discussed last week on this list under subject "Libretto
70CT won't recognise Tosh 6.4GB HD".
My guess is that the drives check the IDE/ATAPI "Cable Select" signal
(CSEL on pin 28, which the L50/L70 do not properly provide) to find out
whether they should act as the IDE "master" or "slave" device, and then
use the wrong operation mode. If this is the case, the problem might be
fixed by manually jumpering the drives to "master" (provided that such
a jumper setting exists).
Perhaps Anke can tell us whether she had any success in the meantime.
Arndt
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Tel: +49 231 556075
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