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From: pipkins@qmsseq.imagen.com (Jeff Pipkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS trashed my U*IX partition
Message-ID: <82@qmsseq.imagen.com>
Date: 11 Jan 90 23:36:35 GMT
References: <2553@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Reply-To: pipkins@qmsseq.UUCP (Jeff Pipkins)
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Organization: QMS Inc., Mobile, Alabama
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In article <2553@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) writes:
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>Then, both drive 1 and drive 2 access lights lit up, and flashed in unison for
>about five seconds.

As I [mis]understand it, this is NEVER supposed to happen, unless you have
a really fancy hard disk controller with multiprocessing capabilities that
can access two disks at once.  Sounds to me like you have a drive address
conflict.

Some of the ribbon cables have a portion of them twisted to change the
effective address.  In this case, the DIP-switches on both drives should
be set to the same physical disk address.  If your ribbon cable (the wide
one going to both disk drives) does not have this twist in it, you must
either put it in there, or change the physical address of one of the drives
by setting a DIP-switch or jumper.

Warning: I HAVE been wrong before...

Good luck!