re problem with maxtor mb ide drive first of all thanks to those of you who responded both here and via e mail the tips didn t pan out but it was good hearing from you now following up to my earlier post disk controller acculogic side hard floppy ide controller jumpers all defaulted shown as normal irq delayed irq primary secondary floppy address single dual speed floppy primary secondary ide address precomp ns ns iochrdy not driven ide drive controls iochrdy other cards didn t check brand serial parallel adapter logitech bus mouse adapter roland mpu compatible midi interface configured with default irq mem address i opened up the box and removed all the other cards above no help there then not having anything better to try i changed normal irq to delayed irq on the disk controller didn t make any difference and iochrdy not driven to ide drive controls iochrdy also had no effect so i put everything back to the way it was and re installed the cards i then unplugged the floppy drive cable from the disk controller voila the pc booted from power up although it seemed to take several seconds before the first access to the hard disk plug the floppy cable back to the controller and the original non boot behavior returns o k with this additional information does anyone in netland have any words of wisdom for what s going on and how i should deal with it larry still un plugging away byler
