That wire automatically sets a drive to master or slave if the drive is set to cable select. If the wire is grounded, then it's slave. If not, it's master.
did you completely remove the cable when you replaced the drive? If so reverse the cable.
Ok..... So lets say its grounded, which means its set to slave....somthat should cause the drive to go undetected, right ? If so, how do i define whether its grounded or not .....
Alternatively, do you think its possible for a Cube to boot from an external drive.... I might want to try it.... Thanks
As far as I know, setting a drive to "master" on a cable select cable will not do any harm(provided that if you install a second drive on the cable, it is set to "slave".).
The jumper diagram you have posted appears to agree with the one I posted earlier, even though the drive is a bit different. It looks to me as though you do in fact have the drive set for master, although setting it for cable select(second set of jumpers over from the data connector) likely won't hurt anything given your modified cable.
Ok..... So lets say its grounded, which means its set to slave....somthat should cause the drive to go undetected, right ? If so, how do i define whether its grounded or not .....
Alternatively, do you think its possible for a Cube to boot from an external drive.... I might want to try it.... Thanks
Conflicting master / slave configurations won't harm any of the devices so my recommendation is, given the uncertainty of what it should be, to just try them all. Start with cable select configured. If that doesn't work set it for master. If that doesn't work than set it for slave. If that doesn't work it's not a master/slave issue. To my knowledge the Cube hard disk should be set for master.
Better yet look at the jumper configuration (C/S, master, or slave) on the original drive and set the new drive for the same configuration.
The original hdd has ten pins, wherelse the hdd which i am replacing has 8 pins. Maybe its not an issue whether its 10 or 8, just whether master, slave or cs. The previous owner told that he attempted to repair it...i dnt know if he had meddled with the pins, thus causing the current setting to be notthe original setting..
Any way vll see hw it goes...
Could the odd "geek" sound be the hard drive trying to spin and failing? Maybe boot in Target Disk mode and attach another Mac if you can. Then you can get into the HDD (if it is good) and at least verify the drive is good.
*Just read your last update, I didn't notice it when I wrote this*
Are you able to get it into OpenFirmware? Also I'd try reseating the RAM or putting in RAM of yours that know works, and try reseating the video card as someone else already said. Nice Cube though, even if it doesn't fully post.
*Update*
Check the cables to the internal drives? Does your external Tiger install find your internal drives at all? Maybe bad cables.
Congrats on getting it to boot! This is my absolute favorite OS X system. I don't really have room to keep other computers set up but it is a system I'd lie to lay my hands on sometime.
The RAM ought to be easy enough to replace if that's the only issue.