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RE: BiOS Summary HD Registration
Will the BIOS SUMMARY screen show your harddisk attached as active primary 0?

New MessageRE: BiOS Summary HD Registration (modified 0 times) BRiM
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For all those webplayer hobbyist who've managed to attached a hard disk and are up and running with no problems, I have a question.

If you restart the webplayer and enable the BIOS summary screen (might also require temporarily disabling quick boot and perhaps even enabling diagnostic mode), will the BIOS Summary screen show the active primary device 0 as your harddrive or will it list "none" for all four IDE channels (primary 0/1 secondary 0/1)??

Thanks!!

(i'm having trouble getting my webplayer to see my harddisk)

05-31-2002 03:35:27

New MessageRE:RE: BiOS Summary HD Registration (modified 0 times) ChocoNutDancer
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I'm having the same trouble getting it to see the hard drive. what rev of the Bios do you have?
05-31-2002 06:04:35

New MessageRE:RE: BiOS Summary HD Registration (modified 0 times) BRiM
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BIOS: T730A1B0
Date: 02/14/2000

damn these infernal things!

05-31-2002 15:29:28

New MessageRE:RE: BiOS Summary HD Registration (modified 0 times) BRiM
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Can we get a reply by some users of this board with fully opertioanl hard drives in their webplayers.

A reply on their bios revision & date for comparison purposes! Thanks

05-31-2002 15:30:17

New MessageRE:RE: BiOS Summary HD Registration (modified 0 times) zmoz
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Mine shows my toshiba hard drive for device 0, and shows nothing for the rest, but there is also nothing there. I don't know what bios revision I have (I can check later) but I remember the date is 02/14/2000.
05-31-2002 15:42:20

New MessageRE:RE: BiOS Summary HD Registration (modified 0 times) NHSam
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My BIOS is also T730A1BO 2/14/2000 on both webplayers.
Webplayer #1 shows IBM-DBCA-204860-(PM)
Webplayer #2 shows FUJITSU MHC2040AT-(PM)

Hope this helps.

05-31-2002 20:55:47

New MessageRE:RE: BiOS Summary HD Registration (modified 0 times) ChocoNutDancer
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my problem turned out to be that I was by
mistake using a laptop cable I made for an IOpener. Once I used a regular laptop
cable it worked fine.
05-31-2002 21:18:10

New MessageRE:RE: BiOS Summary HD Registration (modified 0 times) jimmybones
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CHoco,

Where did you acquire the materials to "make your own cable"?

Do you have a parts list + source for purchase (preferablly not online, but if that's all you have please post the info anyhow).

Also, aren't iopner and webplayer cables theretically the same: both require a 44pin laptop ide ribbon cable? Why would that have made a difference?

In any event, I'm glad you got yours to pop, hope for me :)

05-31-2002 21:22:53

New MessageRE:RE: BiOS Summary HD Registration (modified 0 times) ChocoNutDancer
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bones,
I know I did quite a bit of searching on the web to find the laptop connectors and cable at a reasonable price. I also bought an IDE crimper. at the time I was making a few IO and GCT cables.
after having a couple 60GB hard drive crashes since I bought the supplies I probably don't have a record of where I bought them. but I might have some links I can look thru. I'll see what I can find.
The IO and GCT cables have each pair of pins/wires swapped. 1 with 2, 3 with 4, 5 with 6, etc. maybe they thought that would prevent someone from hooking up a laptop drive to it. LOL. they didn't count on someone (Codeman) who was inquisitive enough to open it up and start tinkering with it was also inquisitive enough to figure out it out.

you do have pin 1 of the cable towards the back of the Webplayer right? I figured the extra dab of white paint on the PCB on that corner of the connector marked where pin 1 was and it looks like that was correct.

06-01-2002 05:30:27

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