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At wits end... (modified 0 times) Texman Profile I am having a problem setting up my IO. Before anybody suggests using the search function, I already have...many times...and found lots of useful info, unfortunatle non of it helped my particular situation. I have several IOs: winchip c6 (180mhz on chip 200mhz reported) yamaha sound no epoxy one set of mini dip switches several that have not gone thru tutorial no torx I also have 1 IMOD3 and 1 hitachi DK237A (3.2 gig) HDD, 1 Tosiba MK1926 (810 meg) HDD and 1 (full sized) Conner CFS420 (420 meg) HDD. My problem is that I cannot get any of my IOs to work with any of these drives (they will not autodetect). I have tries using the drive Geometry reported by the sandisk (15,32,63 and 490,2,32) I also tried setting the drive geometry manually (to drive specs - even tried some suggested on this board) and constantly get disk boot failure (IO boots fine without HDD). Any suggestions? One more thing. When I install my IMOD3 without a HDD attached, the sandisk disappears and will not autodetect. When I set up the geometry manually, I still get Disk boot failure. Once I remove the I-Mod, everything works great. - Defective I-Mod??? Anybody else try to boot Io with IMOD3 only (no drive attached)? 04-02-2001 22:09:14

RE:At wits end... (modified 0 times) kesh314 Profile Texman, Are you sure the partition on the HD was marked as "active?" If you FDISKed the drive from a DOS/Windows machine, it's possible the partition wasn't marked active. It is necessary to boot from a floppy that has FDISK on it and the HD as the Primary Master on the IDE bus so it's partition can be set as active. This issue is totally separate from the Imod3. Hope that helps, Kevin 04-03-2001 00:01:17

RE:At wits end... (modified 0 times) parasyght Profile | Email You know, its about time someone put an updated user friendly web site for moding all versions of iopeners. Its possible that we could get a flood of the,"where can i find out how to make my iopener into a computer,"posts, due to the recent collapse of NPL, and flood of wholesale io's. This board is so packed full of the words,"hack, iopener, mod, cpu, amd......." and so on, that it is nearly impossible for the welcome newbies to properly find the right info. When got my first io a year a go, i had to read for 2weeks at about 3.5 hours a day to figure how the heck i was going to friggen do this hack/mod. Imagine the labyrinth of threads one would have to go though now to get the right answers. Since there is one person whom is famous for is torching of newbies, i nominate the ever confident "Starfish" to build a grand information center, on all levels moding the io, to keep the floundering newbies out of the maze and onto the workbench, which is conviently out of our hair. Long live starfish, Im sure you should have no problem fullfilling this grand task, for HTML is newbies you silly fish. good luck on your journey, and may the RAID be with you. 04-03-2001 00:12:59

RE:At wits end... (modified 0 times) ckbone Profile After first setting up a hard drive in another computer, make certain it will boot to a DOS prompt in that computer. If it won't boot there, for certain it won't boot in your I-Opener. Setting the BIOS to "Auto" will usually work in an I-Opener. 04-03-2001 03:32:22

RE:At wits end... (modified 0 times) Texman Profile Hey parasyght, pass that joint this way, then maybe I could make sense of your reply. OK, maybe I put to much info into my first post (only I hate replys like 'what version is it' 'what HDD did you use' etc.) If you read my post to the end, I suspect I have a defective IMOD3. Has anybody else booted an IO with just an IMOD3 installed (no harddrive), and if so what were the results. The IM3 is the only device I don't have two of to test. I hate returning things that I don't know for sure are defective. BTW, I created a dos boot disk and 'sys'ed the disk to the hdd. Then tested that drive on my PC..all ok. Tried this several times, several configs, several different hardware (except always the same IM3) all with same result on the IO...boot disk failure. 04-03-2001 21:40:16

RE:At wits end... (modified 0 times) StarFish Profile I think You have your own answer. For proof, I would Suggest an Ohm meter. The Most Common problem would be Continuity between ajacent contacts. With nothing attached to the IMod3. Start @ 1 corner, Probe, 1 contact & with the other Probe check the surrounding contacts. Move the first Probe over 2 contacts & up/down 1, repeat Test. Continue thur the whole connector. Exceptions are Grounds that might be Common, Pins 2, 22, 24, 26, 30, 40, & 43 Plus Pin 39 for the LED to Pin 41 Power. I would work from the solder side of the laptop hard drive connector. You don't want to stick anything other than the right size square pin in the sockets, as you could resize them & cause another problem, If you find your 1st problem & can repair it. References: http://www.hwb.acc.umu.se/co_Ata44Internal.html http://www.hwb.acc.umu.se/co_AtaInternal.html 04-04-2001 01:06:39

RE:At wits end... (modified 0 times) kesh314 Profile Parasyght, others: I am working on an all-in-one FAQ/IOpener- mod paper. I am very busy at the present, but as soon as I have one ready for review I will post a link as to where it can be found. Realistically speaking, I'm looking at 2 more weekends before I have something ready. Kevin 04-04-2001 01:19:05

RE:At wits end... (modified 0 times) BadFlash Profile | Email Sounds to me like a defective IMOD to me. I've gotten 2 back, but that is under a 1% failure rate. Somebody ends up being the statistic. 04-04-2001 10:18:20

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