Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Nanook From: Nanook@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Hard drive / controller problems Message-ID: <7324@cup.portal.com> Date: 14 Jul 88 02:25:39 GMT References: <222@psuhcx.psu.edu> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 16 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.4177 Try setting your drives to Select 2. If I remember right on IBM XT's (& clones) with the twisted cable, the drive should be select 2. See if setting the drive jumpers on both of them to 2 will fix the problem... The reason the system hangs in some configrations is that it's seeing responces across the command lines but nothing on the data lines (two different connectors). If you want, configur your system so the two drives hang, then swop the SMALL cables and see if it helps. Just groping in the dark... Bring it to Florida & I'll be glad to help! Nanook of the South uunet!sundc!sun!cup.portal.com!nanook ------------------------------------------- "How can you expect to run the world if you can't answer a few unsolvable questions???" -Flynn [TRON]