Evidently, on laptop drive to normal IDE converters, the red line is not toward the power source. At least not on that one I have. Darn me for using cables without knotches.
UUUUGGGG! I knew it was something stupid! Quoting Jacob Albretsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Question for the hardware experts. > > I am trying to get the data off my laptop hard drive. My desktop is the > following (PIII 800 Mhz): > > Primary Master - (Win 98 / hda) > Primary Slave - (Linux / hdb) > Secondary Master - CDROM > Secondary Slave - ZIP > > I disconnected the CDROM and ZIP and plugged in the laptop drive as the > Secondary Master, but when I boot, it no longer detects the first two > drives > (or anything for that matter). I found some docs online, apparently the > drive is supposed to by default figure out what cable it's on. I also > tried > to jumper it to tell it that it is a master (B-D). Same thing. The > laptop > drive is a Toshiba MK3017GAP. > > http://sdd.toshiba.com/cda/main.aspx?Path=/818200000007000000010000659800000963/81820000011d000000010000659c000003fd/8182000001f1000000010000659c000005e2/8182000001f3000000010000659c000005e5 > > Maybe I'm reading the docs wrong since I don't get the whole p28 thing. > I'd > appreciate any insight as to why I am not having success. My next idea > is > to jumper C-D and connected it as the secondary slave (assuming I can > have a > secondary slave without a secondary master) > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
