On Sunday 22 June 2003 01:28 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > Mike: > You sound a bit confused about drive terminology.
definetly :) Your board has > two IDE slots (or channels). One is the primary, the other is the > secondary. Each channel can handle both a master and slave drive. The drive > jumpers determine whether a drive is to be the master or slave, but have > nothing to do whether it is on the primary or secondary channel. > > It sounds as if your current setup has both drives on the primary channel > with the HD as master and the CDRW as slave. My advice would be to leave > the old HD as the primary master. Why confuse Windows more than it already > is? i'm going to have to open the box up to be fully sure what is connected where. i remember there's 3 slots on my motherboard, but only 2 are being used. i believe there was a problem with the 3rd slot. > > You could install the new drive on the secondary channel and leave it > jumpered as master; this arrangement is least apt to confuse Windows. > However, my choice is to install the new drive on the primary channel as > slave, and move the CDRW to the secondary channel as master. i'll try both arrangements and see what works. > > Check your BIOS settings that all of the IDE drives are set to Auto Detect > (or whatever) -- and also that the secondary channel has not been turned > off. > > I'll leave it to others to discuss partitioning schemes (it's been an > active topic lately), but remember that you don't have to partition the > whole damn 100 GB now. True, because from what i've seen, it's easy to partition off a section for linux, but a bit more work to give it back to windows. i can always add more for linux later on. kinda jumping the gun i guess. it's going to be an interesting week, but only the hard drive is going to be a struggle to set up. the new moniter is supposed to be here thursday (plug and play) and more ram (to boost the system to 768MB). those 2 are easy, i can handle those no problem. for now i guess i'll do the smart thing....just get the 100GB drive in and get it working properly, then worry about moving linux and partitioning later. hey, i got a new toy and i wanna play.....isn't that just human nature? :) thanks! > -- cmg
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