Emil Josefsson wrote: >I have an old Hewlett Packard P133 with a 1.2Mb hard drive, and now I've just >invested in an 8.4Gb Fujitsi drive that I would like to use as a second >hard drive. IMHO you should use the larger drive as master since it's probably (something like 99,99% chance) faster. >I've managed to get the BIOS to correctly identify this second drive, >but then I run into trouble when trying to format and re-partition >the new drive. I get error messages such as "divide error" when >trying to format. Remove the old HD (you might need to unplug it) and boot from a floppy and try and access the new drive. >I'm also very unsure about these master/slave jumper settings and I'm probably >doing something wrong right there. The new drive has a jumper but the old >1.2Mb >drive that's the default hard drive doesn't seem to use any jumpers, so I'm >not sure how to make this the master drive. You probably have a second IDE channel which you can use instead, plug the old one into this after you have gotten the new one to work. This will also improve performence (and you'll get around the jumper problem for a while atleast). >As you can tell, I need lots of advice and help to make these >things work together! If you want the help in swedish instead (and you think I can be of help) please don't hesitate to mail me privately. //Bernie http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ... To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
