Re: No Wondows XP boot with CD slaves connected

On Feb 26, 11:06 am, JKevorkian <fly...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:55:11 -0500, "Anna" <myn...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Tom:
We'll assume all connected devices and their respective data/power cables
are non-defective and properly connected .

If I understand your present configuration, your WD HDD is connected as
Primary Master and there is presently no Slave connected on that IDE
channel. If this is so, have you jumpered the WD as Single? Could that be
the cause of your problem?

And I'm at a loss to understand your proposed configuration for the future.
Do you really need an IDE controller card? Why couldn't your three optical
drives and the PATA HDD be connected to your motherboard's IDE channels as
they are now? (You need three optical drives?). Are you contemplating that
configuration because of your present problem? (It's hard to imagine that
your 100 MB ZIP drive is a useful/practical device in the current
environment).
Anna

Thanks for your reply, Anna.
Ayuh, 3 optical drives is the norm for me usually. One's to read, and two's
to burn. A fellow in another group mentioned that some drives don't play well
with others, and I concur. Whilst tinkering with the system this morning, I
discovered that setting the CD reader & burner drives to Cable Select, and
connecting them to the 2nd channel via an 80-pin IDE cable gave me success
booting into Windows. No such luck with the HDD and DVD burner going the same
route on the primary channel, though. I'm pretty sure that an additional IDE
controller card will make the boo-boo go away.
As a side note - that ZIP drive does have its use backing up my Quicken files on
my other PC. Quicken files have gotten gigantic over the years.- Hide quoted text -

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All WD hard drives have a "notorious" reputation with jumpers settings
that you must set correctly so as for it underestand that you have a
slave drive connected to the same IDE cable. Have you made sure that
the jumpers are correctly set (I believe that the Master WD may have
to not have the jumper cap on the pins????)

.

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