Dear all,
I'm almost frustated.
I tried to add a primary slave hdd into the system, but it didn't work. The BIOS failed to recognise the drive.
Both primary master and slave are maxtors.
I've double checked the jumper setting and I'm sure I did it right. http://maxtor.com/en/documentation/installation_guides/ata_installation_guide.pdf
The errors were:
1. If I set hdd #1 as master and hdd #2 as slave, BIOS only recognise hdd #1
2. If I set both hdd as cable select then only hdd #2 is recognised.
3. If I set hdd #1 as slave and hdd #2 as slave/cable select ( I know this is wrong), then only hdd #1 is recognised (as slave).
This maxtor jumper settings really pissed me off! I don't have this kind of trouble if I use maxtor and seagate. Is maxtor and maxtor really can't be used together?
No, your've done something wrong, or rather not completed something,
First , you have your drives master/slave on the same ide line, are you sure ?
those tiny litle diagrams on the drive can be difficult to interpret sometimes.
I generally don't use cable select, but if you do make sure both are cable select.
Otherwise each must be correctly set either master or slave.
then go into bios and tell it to look for both , they should be autodetected and established as devices with nown parameters , then reboot.
The only other concern I can think of is, you haven't got some monster sized HD ?
I think mandrake lernels may still have limitations ?
John
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