I don't know anything else to try.  It should be easy to just swap the 
two drives places on the existing IDE cable.  Make sure the jumpers are 
correct, though.

Nathan


Lubos Vrbka wrote:

>
>> It seems like this could just be a hardware problem, and I don't 
>> remember if you've tried figuring that out yet.  Perhaps switching 
>> the two drives' place in the IDE chain(s) (assuming that they're IDE 
>> drives) would give you a clue.  Do you have another machine you could 
>> try the newer disk in?
>
> i'll try that. i don't have another 80pin cable now, but in the 
> beginning of the next week, i'll also try to attach the drive to the 
> other ide controller. i guess i cannot do more in this case - or is 
> there another possibility how to check for the hardware problems?
>
> regards,
>