On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:06:01 -0400 Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You might do better to change the jumpers from cable select to > explicit master/slave if you are trying to hook a hard drive up to the > same controller as as CD/DVD. Also, Make the hd the master, not the > CD/DVD device. > > And, in addition, CD/DVD devices routinely support lower transfer > rates than do hard drives and IDE is limited to only connecting all > devices at the highest possible speed of the lowest speed device. > Thus, if the CD/DVD is only ATA33 and the hard drive is ATA100, > hooking them to the same controller will limit the hard drive to ATA33 > speeds. This is usually unacceptable from a performance perspective > which is why people hook them up to separate controllers whenever > possible. > > From personal experience, I have a machine right now that only has > standard IDE controllers available. Two controllers and I currently > have 4 devices in side it, 3 hard drives and 1 DVD+RW. On the channel > where the DVD sits, I had to explicitly jumper the hd as master and > the DVD as slave, or else I had device problems. You might be > suffering from a similar issue.-- > Bryan Phinney > Software Test Engineer Bryan I plan to put another hd in the machine - when I do it will be slave to the Seagate as you've suggested. I finally used a different unit - CDROM - and got Mdk re-installed and everything was working fine. After replacing the DVD as slave, it's still working. I'm at a loss to understand what was happening but *was* is the key word. Thanks for the ideas. Curt
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