At 11:49 17-12-04 -0700, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
>On Dec 17, 2004, at 11:30 AM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>
>>> If the BIOS sees it, your OS should as well.
>>>
>> No, it doesn't. Stupid OS :-/
>
>But the BIOS *does* recognize the hard drive?
>
>>> Also, you mention jumpers -- do you have a main boot drive set up
>>> already? And is it jumped to run as the master? In my experience 
>>> "cable
>>> select" options don't work very well. In such a case the other drive
>>> has to be configged as the slave.
>>>
>> Yikes! I don't want to do it!
>
>So the drive wasn't changed from factory default when you put it in? 
>Hmm, my guess is that it was configured as a master unit, then. That 
>would mean, probably, that you've got two different devices on the same 
>IDE chain competing for "master" status.
>
>You're going to have to do something to he hardware to fix that. Sorry. 
>Fortunately it just means setting the jumpers so the new drive is set 
>up to be the slave. That *ought to* take care of it.


Famous last words, especially when computers are concerned . . . 


Oh, and while I am thinking about it, thanks to all who responded to my
question about DVD�RW!






-- Ronn!  :)


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