[WEB4LIB] Re: technical question

[Marc Bertone]

Joyce,

I had a similar problem at home recently, which turned out the be the cable.
Most likely this is a problem with the BIOS settings on the machine...they
are either outdated, or misconfigured.  Most BIOS's (?) are fairly easy to
configure for things like floppy drives, so I would be glad to review your
settings if you wish.  Feel free to contact me off-list.

-Marc

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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Jacque King
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 4:03 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: echnical question


Joyce,

Could it be a BIOS error?

Jacque King
Library Technical Support Specialist
Fort Collins Public Library
201 Peterson Street
Fort Collins, CO  80524
(970) 221-6716
king at julip.fcgov.com


On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Joyce M. Latham wrote:

>
> Ok, troops, here is one of those technical questions I need help with
> periodically:
>
> I am setting up a bunch of 486's for tear-down/re-build for a library
> school class.  The only problem is a persistence in loss of the A drive
> -- four out of the six do not recognize the A drive -- swap out a
> drives, swap out cables, get a seek error message when booting the
> machine; tried changing the setup to 720's -- no luck.  These are all
> the same machine, getting the same error, which leads me to believe it
> is a set-up issue in some way, other than just all the connectors on the
> mother board for the a drives has gone bad ...
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Joyce
>
> --
> Joyce M. Latham
> GSLIS -- University of Illinois
>
>    "Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people; there is
> only     enlightened activity."  Suzuki Roshi
>