| From: | Robert Cranley |
| Date: | 27 Oct 2000 at 01:27:46 |
| Subject: | Re: two IDE drives at once directly off motherboard? |
Hi Andrew, Hi All,
On 25-Oct-00, you wrote:
>> Do I need to get an IDE PowerFlyer thingy to be able to use both of
>> these drive together?
A power flyer will have exactly the same problems as the internal port if
the drives are conflicting, i.e. not recognising drives. It will let you use
each on its own bus though (2 masters).
> b) Jumper settings are wrong, you *need* a master and slave. (although
> this shouldn't stop the amiga from booting)
It stopped mine from booting when I had the jumpers wrong on a CD-ROM and a
HD. Both were set to master, and all I got was a black screen, couldn't even
get the early startup screen, and the HD access light was on constantly,
even though there was no access or noises. All fixed by looking up the
jumper settings and setting them right.
>
> c) Your harddrives just don't like each other (could be, as they're
> different types...)
Very possible, especially if one of them is quite old
> Also, are you sure it won't boot? How long have you left it? (if
> harddrives are conflicting, it might be like having no hd, so there'd
> be a long-ish IDE wait)
If they conflict, it mightn't boot at all, but if it does, you should get
the "insert disk" screen after 20-30 seconds.
Regards,
Rob
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