Re: Drives Configuration

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From: David Routh (david.routh_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 03/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:47:09 -0000

Cori
Thanks for the reply, sorry I meant the Secondry slave, not primary,
I did go into the bios and it says secondry slave not installed, and my bios
will not let me change any of the drive settings, isn't it just a matter of
the correct drive and jumper set up which dictate the bios set up?
Dave

"David Routh" <david.routh@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:eQlJftcEEHA.3976@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi
>
> I have a small problem on boot up, 8 times out 10 it hangs on the post
> screen for approx 45 seconds at the 4th line,
> Auto Detecting Primary Slave... Press <F4> To Abort
> although nothing happens if I press F4, the other 2 times it goes straight
> through, beeps and boots.
> I think the problem is with the jumpers, if I take out my CD-RW and boot
> with just Hard drive in IDE 1 and CD-Rom in IDE2 it boots no problem every
> time, my set up at present is
> Maxtor Diamond max Hard Drive as master on IDE 1, jumper on master
> CD-Rom as master on IDE 2, jumper on master
> CD-RW as slave on IDE 2, jumper on slave
> Can anyone advise me as to best drive configuration and what the jumpers
on
> each drive should be set at.
>
> Dave
>
>

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