Re: add 2nd hard drive

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From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 15:46:58 +0000

Art wrote:

>
>What I'm curious about is why you recommend he jumper the drive as Slave. He
>states he jumpered the drive as Cable Select (I know he said "cable direct",
>but let's assume he meant Cable Select). Again, assuming that his Primary
>drive on the same IDE cable is jumpered Cable Select, do you see any problem
>in this configuration,

That is making an assumption that the existing drive is set CS, and that
a CS cable is in use. There is also the possibility that a CD is in
that position, and this is a new cable (likely not CS) on the second
controller. Having it set as slave avoids confusions 

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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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