[Ben Goulbourn]

this is bucking fullshit

i spend fucking hours trying to get this new hard-drive to work and in the end it was becuase the jumper was on "cable select" and not "slave"

FUCK YOU YOU IDE BASTARDS

[fyrestorm]

oh dear ben...i don't think i've ever seen you this mad

[skyhawk133]

Now Now Mr. Potty Mouth!

[Ben Goulbourn]

fyrestorm, on Sep 4 2003, 09:50 PM, said:

oh dear ben...i don't think i've ever seen you this mad

your right..but just think
hours wasted because a little piece of plastic was on 2 pins instead of the 2 pins next to it
im still angry!

i mean shit..
why cant all 3.5" bays be configured so that you can just insert the drive through the front of the case, and have the IDE port and power plug waiting for it?
and have all the jumper stuff auto-configured in the bios?
everything is too complicated

This post has been edited by Ben Goulbourn: 04 September 2003 - 07:07 PM

[gneato]

Ben, if you had read any of the instructions that came with your motherboard.....

[MarkoDaGeek]

everyone knows the very first thing you do when you get a harddrive is check the jumpers , if you dont do that you shouldnt be installling one, you should have went online and looked a manual for it or something...

[Nova Dragoon]

MarkoDaGeek, on Sep 4 2003, 08:31 PM, said:

everyone knows the very first thing you do when you get a harddrive is check the jumpers , if you dont do that you shouldnt be installling one, you should have went online and looked a manual for it or something...

ouch, but true

[objekt404]

Nova Dragoon, on Sep 4 2003, 11:03 PM, said:

MarkoDaGeek, on Sep 4 2003, 08:31 PM, said:

everyone knows the very first thing you do when you get a harddrive is check the jumpers , if you dont do that you shouldnt be installling one, you should have went online and looked a manual for it or something...

ouch, but true

ditto. A much bigger bitch is when *they* (the manufacture(s)) don't include a jumper diagram on the drive itself (like anyone is gonna go looking for a manual to slave an old drive 2 years later!)

[Trakker]

objekt404, on Sep 5 2003, 08:49 PM, said:

Nova Dragoon, on Sep 4 2003, 11:03 PM, said:

MarkoDaGeek, on Sep 4 2003, 08:31 PM, said:

everyone knows the very first thing you do when you get a harddrive is check the jumpers , if you dont do that you shouldnt be installling one, you should have went online and looked a manual for it or something...

ouch, but true

ditto. A much bigger bitch is when *they* (the manufacture(s)) don't include a jumper diagram on the drive itself (like anyone is gonna go looking for a manual to slave an old drive 2 years later!)

true that, thats why you always buy WD or Maxtor.

[code_dude]

[edit by supersloth: codedude, don't ever do that again, only warning]

This post has been edited by supersloth: 06 September 2003 - 01:10 PM

[objekt404]

Trakker, on Sep 5 2003, 10:15 PM, said:

objekt404, on Sep 5 2003, 08:49 PM, said:

Nova Dragoon, on Sep 4 2003, 11:03 PM, said:

MarkoDaGeek, on Sep 4 2003, 08:31 PM, said:

everyone knows the very first thing you do when you get a harddrive is check the jumpers , if you dont do that you shouldnt be installling one, you should have went online and looked a manual for it or something...

ouch, but true

ditto. A much bigger bitch is when *they* (the manufacture(s)) don't include a jumper diagram on the drive itself (like anyone is gonna go looking for a manual to slave an old drive 2 years later!)

true that, thats why you always buy WD or Maxtor.

& other than IBM, who else is there?

BTW: IBM drives aren't as bad as they were last year. But I doubt the RMA period has dropped....

[Trakker]

objekt404, on Sep 5 2003, 09:31 PM, said:

& other than IBM, who else is there?

Seagate.

[gneato]

Trakker, on Sep 5 2003, 08:49 PM, said:

objekt404, on Sep 5 2003, 09:31 PM, said:

& other than IBM, who else is there?

Seagate.

...and Fujitsu, Smartdisk, Teac, IBM, Toshiba, and Eurlogic. (to name a few)

[supersloth]

I have a seagate and it has the diagram. only ones ive seen with out the diagrams are the comps that come pre-built (like my parents HP)

[Ben Goulbourn]

no really
one of my hard-drives is on cable-select all the time, and there is no problem