Famous quotes(4 drives on a PC) (was:: Merced - and the ol' Unix story (was Re: OT, but info needed: RAM uprade))

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Mon Jan 18 16:01:47 1999

Ethan Dicks wrote:

> I recently helped a friend with a floppy problem. His broke so
> he bought a new one from CompUSA. It didn't work. Two other
> geeks looked at it before me with no success. I tried to read
> a floppy, noticed the errors and lights, etc. then pulled the drive,
> found the slide switch on the side and changed it from 0 to 1.
>
> Don't assume drives are set to unit 1 at the factory.

Same as don't assume that a hard drive is set to single drive on system
either. I've had brand new ones set as master, slave and even factory
test.
Received on Mon Jan 18 1999 - 16:01:47 GMT