| From: | Richard Tapp |
| Date: | 25 Oct 2000 at 23:18:01 |
| Subject: | two IDE drives at once directly off motherboard? |
Hello all,
I got a 2.5 IDE cable which will allow me to connect my original 40MB IDE
(for installing the new WB when I eventually get it - hope it fits on 40MB)
and my normal 1GB IDE drive. The 40MB is an original seagate and the 1GB is
a "refurbished" IBM OEM one.
However when they are both connected at once, the system refuses to boot.
It continually resets and I can't even get the Early Startup screen to come
up.
I also installed 3.1 ROMS at the same time I fitted both IDE drives, and
doubt the ROMS to be playing a part in this outcome.
I have disconnected the 40MB one and changed the Boot Priority of the 1GB to
value of 1 instead of 2, thinking that maybe there might be a conflict
between both boot partitions (one on each drive) having the same boot
priority. This didn't seem to help at all either.
Any other suggestions? I notice on the back (same end as IDE cable
connection), one of the drives has a "jumper" on the two pins furthest from
the IDE cable (if that makes any sense). I was told these are for Primary
(or master) and secondary (slave) drive identification. The other drive has
no such jumper, but the pins are available.
Do I need to get an IDE PowerFlyer thingy to be able to use both of these
drive together?
Regards,
Richard.
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