Adam just a thought...
You are not putting the ata ide cables in backwards are you....?
You know what i mean - some people reverse the cables to accomodate the sometimes long stretch from the hd to cd rom??
If not, then I go with trying a new 80 wire cable. Two hard drives crapping out at the same time is not likely - possible sure, but I doubt thats the case.
Its not like the good old days when you could reverse the data flow.
