On 7/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Eric Smith wrote:<br><br>><br>> Thanks Brian. Is it really possible that the ribbon/connector/ide bus<br>> has some issue which is allowing the one hard drive to boot, but none of<br>> the others I've tried. In all of my test cases i was using the same
<br>> ribbon and the same connector. I can swap out the ribbon and see if<br>> that makes a difference... but is there anything else I can actually do<br>> to test this theory?<br><br>Replacing the cable is the best bet. Also, as was mentioned here
<br>yesterday, check for bent pins on the drive and mobo connectors.<br><br>It IS possible to put the "keyed" connector into a drive in the wrong<br>way. I know, I have done it.<br><br>BEWW</blockquote><div><br>
<br>No luck. I switched out the IDE ribbon and had the same results... able to boot the old fc3 drive but not a newer winxp or fc6 drive. I also retried the fedora live cd while the working HDD was connected and was not able to get that to boot either. I triple checked all the pins and there is nothing visibly wrong anywhere.
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