26 Feb
2007
26 Feb
'07
9:08 a.m.
On 26 Feb 2007 at 1:29, M H Stein wrote:
1) Actually, according to WD it's a 10-pin drive,
but CS is still pins 1&2.
However, I doubt that an old 486 would recognize CS, even with an
80-conductor cable; the existing one probably works because it's treated
as a master with a 40-conductor cable.
My mistake--I went to my pile of old drives and grabbed a 31200,
which is a 6-pin drive.
Cable select's pretty old--I assumed the OP knew what he was talking
about and went with it. I don't know what the OP's machine was using
for a controller (i.e. on-board, or add-on PCI or ISA, EISA or VLB--
they all existed for 486 machines).
I probably have an old Mobo with the Phoenix 1.01 BIOS on it around
here; but I don't remember if it had an "IDE drive identify" utility
on it.
Sorry for the misleading. I was one tired puppy last night. About
the only thing I can add is that look out for running older IDE and
newer IDE drives on the same cable. They don't always like each
other.
Cheers,
Chuck