On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:17:55 -0400, Roger Turk wrote: > Andy,
> Is your CD-ROM connected to IDE0 or IDE1? (Is it on the same ribbon cable as > your HD?) > Do you have an open bay (either a 5.25" or 3.5") in which to put your new HD? > If you have to remove your CD-ROM, i.e., don't have an open bay or the CD-ROM > is connected as a slave on the same IDE connector as your existing HD, in > order to install a 2nd HD, you will need to REM out all the lines in > AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS that deal with the CD-ROM. Use semi-colons (;) in CONFIG.SYS at the start of a line, no REM. Bastiaan > Is there any particular reason that you don't want to have two HD's in > your computer? > You would have to modify your CMOS to reflect that: > 1: You no longer have a CD-ROM if you have to remove it, and, > 2. You have two HD's and to include the parameters of the second drive. > You can get the parameters of drives either from the label on the drive, > from the drive manufacturer's web site, or, for an *old* HD (which a 525 MB > HD would be), or from tables in Scott Mueller's "Upgrading and Repairing PCs." > Some drives, e.g., Western Digital, require that there be *no* jumper > installed if the drive is an "only" drive. If you have two drives on the > same ribbon cable, one *has* to be jumpered as the Master, and the other > *has* to be jumpered as the Slave. > HTH > Roger Turk > Tucson, Arizona > Andy wrote: > .. > I have my 4x CD-ROM attached to my IDE cable as D: > .. > I *don't* want to add a slave drive permanently... > .. > can I temporarily disconnect the CD-ROM to setup such a *temporary* slave > .. > drive (for copying from C: before setup as a new master HD) ? > .. > if i set the jumpers as slave, disconnect the cd-rom and plug in the > .. > upgrade HD to where the cd-rom was... do I have to worry about what > .. > happens to the temp. un-used cd-rom drivers in boot-up?(I'm assuming a > .. > slave drive doesn't need drivers even though, like the cd-rom, it's > .. > not/wouldn't be in the CMOS Setup > .. > please advise... ************************* Technische Redactie CQ-PA Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ ************************* Attentie: e-mail adres bij Wanadoo niet meer gebruiken! [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.hetnet.nl/~ba8tian/index.html -- Virusvrij e-mailen? => Arachne browser/mailer -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
