Re: Slave HDD

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From: Nathan McNulty (newsgroups_at_msn.com)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 16:05:53 -0800

It is important to not only have the jumpers correct, but also the
location. You need the Master to be the one on the end of the IDE Cable
and the Slave to be in the middle. If the computer functions properly
with only the master, but for some reason the slave crashes the whole
thing, try the secondary IDE Controller for the slave and see if that
helps. If the drive freezes everything up no matter where you put it,
it may be either a fualty drive or your motherboard has issues.

You may want to try updating the BIOS if possible as that can often
solve issues of not recognizing a hard drive ;)

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Nathan McNulty

Richard Urban wrote:
> If one drive is jumpered as a slave, the other (on the same cable) must be
> jumpered as a master. Did you do this?
>

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