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Some progress so I'll try to put everything in order.
Trying to get the CDROM to be recognized continued to fail on all
secondary connections.
I unpackaged a fresh 80 conductor ribbon cable which has the 2
connectors so I could work off the primary only.
No CDROM drive with the IBM Deskstar on Primary Master and a CDROM
Drive on Primary Slave.
Just for grins, I hooked up the sample drive I had made-- it is a 5Gb Maxtor
I got on Ebay for a buck plus shipping.
This fired up, booted, did the discovery of unfamilar parts and drivers
and also got what it needed off of my Windows factory disk.
Well something is working anyways.
Next, I wanted to take that disk image put it on the Deskstar which is a
20Gb and freshly wiped with bootnuke.
When running Ghost7 I got a "only one drive installed error."
Does this mean that I can't use Ghost to transfer the image?
Many questions remain but a lot got done.
If the Deskstar 20Gb is ok does it simply need some fiddling with the
jumpers? On this Deskstar there are 8 patterns of jumpers! I plugged in the
Deskstar to do the image on Primary Slave figuring that is the
only channel which is working.
Or does a fresh format need to be done on the Deskstar?
To review:
Nothing has worked on Secondary drive channels Primary or Secondary.
A stock 5Gb drive jumpered simply as master is booted to the Primary
Master and runs Windows 98se.
Installing a stock CDROM to the Primary Slave also works ok after I changed
to a stock ribbon cable with 2 plugs instead of the one from Dell which had
only one.
Reinstalling permanently will be problematic because of the length of the
ribbon cables. But if I can get a working unit going, cosmetics is a secondary issue.
I have not tested the Samsung original CDROM drive in this new config.
Deskstar jumper settings are way confusing.
There may be a problem finding a driver for the ethernet connection.
I'll be testing that shortly.
Finally screen resolution looks to be stuck at 640x400 but does not revert to safe mode.
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