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I have a bios from BadFlash, yet, still having troubles (modified 0 times) M3shuggah Profile Ok...(If you can point me to another thread that would be fine also) I already have the bios from badflash.com, yet, I'm pretty sure my i-opener has already phoned-home (being that i bought the demo from CompUSA) But when I put in the new bios, and my hard drive setup, I'm still getting the "HARD DISK FALIULE" shiznat. 09-20-2000 07:39:25

RE:I have a bios from BadFlash, yet, still having troubles (modified 0 times) BadFlash Profile | Email Are you using a cable with swapped pins? Will the drive boot on another computer? 09-20-2000 09:51:29

RE:I have a bios from BadFlash, yet, still having troubles (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email "Phoning Home" has no significance anymore. There was a lot of FUD spread around between March and May about this, because some of the older hacks needed a Root-Shell in QNX. Since you've got a BadFlash chip, you don't need QNX or its Root-Shell. You'll be up and running in no time: 1) Check your BIOS settings. Easiest to use Auto/Auto in the IDE Configuration screen. Also, check to make sure it's set up to boot either "C,A,SCSI", or "C Only". 2) Power up. Look for the your hard-drive's ID signature in the IDE Device scan. I've had a few frustrating moments with defective cables -- so if the ID signature is garbled, assume you've got a bad cable. If your hard-drive doesn't show up at all, check to make sure you don't haven't reversed the connector on one end. 3) Check your drive's partition table, and make sure you have an "Active" (bootable) partition set up on that drive. This step is very easy to overlook. 09-20-2000 13:53:51

RE:I have a bios from BadFlash, yet, still having troubles (modified 0 times) M3shuggah Profile I am using a 44-pin cable with the pins swapped. And yes, the drive will boot on another computer (basically made it a dos system disk... "format c:\ /s") Let me try out the bios settings... it may just be a bad cable also. But with the new bios, I shouldn't have to do anything else correct? 09-20-2000 17:32:04

RE:I have a bios from BadFlash, yet, still having troubles (modified 0 times) M3shuggah Profile ok... i set it to Auto/Auto, and C only for the boot sequence. And still no hard drive action. It will find it in BIOS, but when it come to find it at the startup screen...nothing. It shows IDE MASTER: none, IDE SLAVE: Sundisk SDTB-128. and yes there is an active partition. help!!! 09-20-2000 17:54:53

RE:I have a bios from BadFlash, yet, still having troubles (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email Assuming you've got the cable ends oriented correctly (it's easy to accidentally reverse an end), it looks very much like a bad cable. You are correct in that you don't need to do anything else to get the HD working on your IO. Hope you've got a warranty if you paid for that cable. 09-20-2000 21:14:10

RE:I have a bios from BadFlash, yet, still having troubles (modified 0 times) BadFlash Profile | Email Do you have a V1 or a V5 patched bios? The V1 is very picky about how the drive is formatted with some drives. Search for your drive in this forum and see if anyone has posted a heads/cyl/etc. arrangement that works. It should detect the drive though. Check the master/slave jumpers. All the drives I've worked with require the jumpers to be removed. My experience with bad cables is mostly that the I-O won't boot at all. The failure mode with most cables is shorted pins. Most of the time this takes out the whole machine, not just a failure to detect the drive. Check out the cable for shorts & opens. You can always send the chip back to me and I can check it out. I don't charge to check out chips that I've sent that people are having trouble with (as long as they bought them from me). 09-21-2000 08:16:27

RE:I have a bios from BadFlash, yet, still having troubles (modified 0 times) hoagus Profile I'm having this HD prob, too. I get the "invalid boot disk" error, which I'm lead to believe means my drive is seen, but not understood. Does this mean my cable is good? Unfortunately, I don't have a spare to test. I can't get it to autodetect. I've tried all manner of cyls/heads/sector entries on both D and C. Tried C, A, SCSI and C Only. I removed the drive and it still boots DOS on the desktop unit and checked that the partition is active. Does the DOS version matter? I might be using an oldie, like v5.1 When I reinstalled the drive, I changed the orientation, to ensure it's not being squashed against anything. I have the v1 BIOS. I notice above someone writes about being able to see the hardware discovery messages as the machine boots, but all I'm getting is the "nothing but net" graphic. Is there a way to duck past the graphic? BTW, I have a v4b, with a Toshiba 6GB, 9.5mm drive (MK6015MAP). I have no jumper installed for master/slave. I'm taking a class the requires Windows, so I need this puppy up and running. All I have right now are Linux and Macs. Anyone? Hoagus 09-21-2000 19:06:54

RE:I have a bios from BadFlash, yet, still having troubles (modified 0 times) BadFlash Profile | Email The invalid boot disk error means that it doesn't understand how you have the drive formatted, or it sees nothing. You need to see the docs on your drive to see if the jumper arangement makes it a master or slave. To blow away the splash screen hit escape. Try fdisk & format with win98 and make it active. Set up you drive to auto-detect on the desktop, then go and see how it set it up. Put these same setting in the I-O. 09-22-2000 05:31:49

RE:I have a bios from BadFlash, yet, still having troubles (modified 0 times) M3shuggah Profile Badflash... I just bought the IDE cable assembly from you just in case it was my cable. I've tried two different hard drives with the same result, so i'm guessing its the damn cable....grrr!! I'll give your cable a shot, and if I still can't get it working, I'll mail the chip back so you can take a look at it. Hogus... keep hitting "tab" at the splash screen, and that will make the splash dissapear. 09-22-2000 07:21:04

RE:I have a bios from BadFlash, yet, still having troubles (modified 0 times) hoagus Profile The drive is "master" with no jumpers installed, but I'm going to try jumping the master pins just to see if that helps. I visited the Toshiba website and got the cyls/heads/sectors config from them, but that hasn't been successful so far. Now that I know how to get around the splashscreen, maybe I can learn more about what's going on. Thanks for the replies. This board has become much more useful now that the "where's my io?" frenzy has died. Hoagus. 09-22-2000 12:05:40

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