Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 17 Jan 1997 13:22:38 -0600 (CST) | From | "Thomas M. Browder" <> | Subject | IDE IO probs |
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Thanks to Larry Augustin and Markus Gutschke, my problems have been solved. Larry turned me on to possible Io chip failure--and my home PC motherboard (new IBM Pentium) caused the floppy problem. Markus is right--shortening the IDE cable to my office PC solved that problem.
Now I'm getting a new motherboard on exchange which should solve the floppy interchange problem. Lessons learned:
1. eide IS sensitive to cabling 2. quality control appears to be a dying thing with some manufacturers
The Linux community is the best technical support around.
Tom Browder ASI Systems International
P.S. Dell, Megahaus, and U.S. Computer Direct have been very good about product exchange--but they need to get on the Linux bandwagon for certifying their machines.
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