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Date:	Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:45:11 PST8
From:	Tom Brown <thombrown@san.rr.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Problems installing eCS 1.2 on new P4 with SATA drive

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GARY.WONG@sbcglobal.net wrote:
[snip]
> I just bought a new P4 3.2GHz and an Intel 865GBFL
> motherboard with 512MB RAM.
>
> However, I also bought a WD 80GB SATA drive (8MB
> buffer and 7200 RPM) after exchanging a WD 80GB
> ATA100 drive.
>
> Now when I try to install eCS 1.2 on it, I hear a
> small short beep and eventually the installer
> says "Please insert the eCS installation CD into the
> CDROM drive and press any key" (or something to that
> effect), even though it is ALREADY in the drive.
>
> The CDROM drive is on the primary IDE channel
> (jumpered as slave), and I have a Plextor CD/RW drive
> on the secondary IDE channel (jumpered as master).

Do you have anything jumpered as master? If not, change the jumper to
master and try again. ISTR that some systems at least, don't like to
have just a slave.

> Any ideas? Jerry said that he and Steven had a
> similar problem with someone's machine at Warpstock
> but they were able to solve it. Now if only Steven
> can elaborate on what they did to fix that guy's
> machine.

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thombrown at san dot rr dot com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E. & SDAA
running eComStation 1.14
eCS system uptime is 0 days 00:42 hours

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