> On Jul 20, 2016, at 5:23 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 9:50 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. <jer...@shidel.net 
> <mailto:jer...@shidel.net>> wrote:
>> On Jul 20, 2016, at 12:56 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com 
>> <mailto:dimitr...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> […]
>> Dimitris
> 
> I have a few silly questions.
> 
> You have verified the drive has the correct jumpers set?
> 
> Correct, master / slave 

:-)

> 
> 
> You are not trying to use cable select mode?
> 
> Nope

:-)

>  
> 
> You are using the correct position on the IDE cable?
> 
> Yes 

:-)

> 
> You are plugged into the primary controller?
> 
> Yes

:-)

>  
> 
> Is the BIOS configuration for the drive being set manually or using "auto" 
> mode?
> 
> This is actually a good question. It is user mode which would qualify as 
> manually, but I can't remember if the values for CHS were actually entered 
> manually by copying them from the labels, or using the auto detect BIOS 
> feature. I do recall it look a lot of effort to figure this out, as any 
> mistake and the system would not detect the hdds or boot altogether. 
> 
> You mentioned “tertiary” at one point. How many drives? How many controllers? 
> 
> The sound blaster card has one IDE port that currently has 2 CD-ROM drives 
> connected in master/slave setup 
> 
> Is the drive partitioned as a single disk or multiple partitions?
> 
> single partition 
:-)
> 
> It is not inside an extended partition?
> 
> No
:-)
>  
> 
> If there are any other drives, are they partitioned and formatted for DOS?
> 
> Yes, the slave drive is an old windows98 system with a fat32  partition.
> 
> I can simplify the setup - remove all CDROM drives and the slave hard drive 
> and leave only one hdd and the floppy to see if there is any change.

It probably won’t help. But, It wouldn’t hurt to try. 

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dimitris

Mostly, I wanted to verify you weren’t using cable select. I’ve seen it work 
great and I’ve seen it cause weird issues. 
There are some strange jumper settings on some drives. Most just master/slave. 
But others that plus single or multiple, LBA or not…
Sometimes you just remove all the jumpers, sometimes you hunt around in you 
desk for an hour because you need just one more.
Oh, IDE was some much fun. Especially, when adding extra cards and raids. 

Anyhow, I figured I might as well play “20 questions” and rule out some of the 
simple but often overlooked items. 

Jerome


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