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BIOS won't recognize 2ndary Slave
Name: biojoe Date: December 30, 2004 at 01:49:00 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro CPU/Ram: Athlon 3000+/512MB
Comment:
I'm re-building my system and and trying to hook up 4 IDE devices:
1 80GB IBM HDD w/OS 1 200GB Maxtor HDD 1 NEC DVD-RW Drive 1 Toshiba DVD-ROM Drive
No matter how I hook them up, BIOS fails to recognize the Secondary Slave. I have made sure to set each drive's jumpers to master/slave where appropriate. Can anyone help or offer me some advice. Thanks.
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: December 30, 2004 at 02:44:37 Pacific
Reply:
Is the 200GB the slave?
Did you try the problem drive by itself?
What does Maxtor say about the jumpers?
M2
Mechanix2@Golden-Triangle.com
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Response Number 2
Name: ranchhand Date: December 30, 2004 at 04:32:54 Pacific
Reply:
Explain exactly how you have connected the IDE cables to each drive.
Do you mean that BOTH the HD slave and the optical slave are not recognized, or only the harddrive slave?
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Response Number 3
Name: jam Date: December 30, 2004 at 06:45:24 Pacific
Use master & slave jumpers only - do NOT use cable select. Use 80-wire IDE cables on both channels. Master does NOT have to go on the end plug when using this setup.
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