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<DIV>Have you tried other devices on the connector other than a tape drive, such
as a CD-ROM or DVD drive to see if it's detected in the BIOS? I had a
board that for some reason could not see a CD-ROM (tried several new and old
that I know to be working) and yet it can see a smaller drives (6-20GB) and not
a larger drive (60GB). This even after applying the latest BIOS. </DIV>
<DIV>Turned out to be faulty BIOS, ended up replacing the board.</DIV>
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<DIV>Personally, I would build a DOS boot disk and put on it a problem that can
scan the system and report what it finds. Do this both with and with tape
drive, quicker and cleaner.</DIV>
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<DIV>Jon</DIV>
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<DIV>Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS, ASE<BR>Director/Sr Systems Consultant<BR>MMT
Networks Pty Ltd<BR><A
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<DIV>"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure<BR> is trying
to please everybody." -Bill Cosby</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>>>> zombie@penguincare.com.au 12:39:48 PM 30/09/2003
>>><BR><BR>Quoth Jon:<BR><BR>> > > So there were no other
settings for the IDE connectors?<BR><BR>I went through the whole BIOS, and there
was nothing else.<BR>I also upgraded to the latest BIOS and tried the latest
stable Linux<BR>kernel (2.4.22)<BR><BR>I guess the only thing left to try is see
what happens under Windows, but<BR>that's another several-hours job, and it
would probably be cheaper to just<BR>buy another mainboard. :)<BR><BR>Quoth
Onno:<BR><BR>> > Back to my original question, do I tell the Kernel team
so they can<BR>> > work-around it, or how do I tell Intel that their BIOS
is broken - as<BR>> > both Matt and I suspect.<BR><BR>If it can be worked
around, then it's probably a good idea to do so, but<BR>I'm not sure if a
disabled IDE port can be worked around...<BR><BR>On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, quoth
Michael Hunt:<BR><BR>> Does the tape drive have any firmware patches
available for it ??? It<BR>> could be the tape drives firmware that is
causing the problem.<BR><BR>I tried another tape drive, completely different
make/model, same result.<BR><BR>-
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