Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!gargoyle!sphinx!mobo From: mobo@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Samuel Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Hard drive / controller problems Summary: Way around the twist? Message-ID: <4452@sphinx.uchicago.edu> Date: 15 Jul 88 01:46:41 GMT References: <222@psuhcx.psu.edu> <16800327@clio> <230@psuhcx.psu.edu> Reply-To: mobo@sphinx.uchicago.edu.UUCP (Samuel Wilson) Organization: Univ.of Chicago Dept. of Anthropology Lines: 31 In article <230@psuhcx.psu.edu> wcf@psuhcx (Bill Fenner) writes: >In article <16800327@clio> berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu writes: >| >|using a "twisted" 34 pin cable. That's what IBM supplies for their >|floppy disk drives, but it should not be used with the hard disk. Use >|a straight cable, and set the disk address select jumper on the >|drive appropriately. >| >Well, I took the cable apart, removed the twist, set DS2, and bagoomba! >20 megs. Nobody that I talked to, including Seagate Tech support and all >the computer stores around town, thought anything about the fact that the >cable was twisted. I know that at least 2 other people are using twisted &c... I put a second ST225 in an ATT6300. I was using a Western Dig. WX2 controller. I was also using a cable with a twist between the connection for drive c and d (or a and b, as the case probably was). the controller could talk to one drive, or the other, but never both at once. I called Everex (who, for some reason known only to them had marketed the WD-Seagate combination), and the (very clued-in) tech guy said, "well, you have both drives set to drive 2 don't you?" (silence on my end). I finally said "Yea, sure I do, course I do, waddya think, I'm a dummy, that's the ticket" and went and set both seagates to be drive 2 and the thing works great. I have some idea how controllers work, and some idea how drives work, but no idea why *that* worked. -- Samuel Wilson ..ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!mobo mobo@sphinx.uchicago.edu University of Chicago, Division of Social Sciences