IDE woes on 4000t

[amesie2]

I am having problems with IDE drives on a 4000t, I didn't get any manuals with the tower system and am wondering if there is a jumper or something I need to change?

I have tried a few different drives from 1.2GB to 4.3GB with no luck, I just sit and stare at a black screen.

I set the drives to Master and nothing, I set the drives to Slave and system will then boot from floppy but HD_Toolbox doesn't find the drive.

I have had similar issues with my dad's 4000t but to get his to read IDE drives I just hit CTRL + leftA + rightA and reboot then the system works fine but mine will not do this. I would appreciate any help on this as I would like to use IDE rather than SCSI.

[amesie2]

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Thanx for the response!!

I tried what you said and still no go, are the 4000's picky when it comes to IDE?

I also have a CSMKIII/060 for my system with 128mb ram, is the SCSI on the CS better than the 4000t's built in?

[amesie2]

My dad's system is a standard 040 25mhz 4000t with 16mb fast and 2mb chip. He has a segate 2.5GB ide drive and a sony SCSI cd-rom drive.

I still can't figure why his machine has to be soft booted to make the IDE work. I did try the other drives on his system and they all came up just fine, mine still remained black with dad's drive on my system.

My system has the CSMKIII with 128mb ram and a sony slot loading SCSI cd-rom drive. I will have to check and see if I have the early config menu later this week as I am heading out of town until 11-17-06. I will follow up when I return.

Thanx for the help

[amesie2]

I think my IDE port is probably bad so I will just have to use either the onboard SCSI or the SCSI_II on the CSMKIII.

Thanx for all the input and suggetions.