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Arranging HDD's/CD's on IDE

  • 29-03-2003 12:11pm
    #1
    seamus
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    Right. Got a new machine last night \o/

    Came with a 40gig HDD, and a DVD/CD-RW combo.

    I want to add a 20gig HDD (Linux) and a CD-ROM (for music).

    Initial test last night worked out badly, and I was too tired to think.

    Basically, putting the two HDD's on IDE-0 would give mixed results. With both on cable select, the Bootloader would tell me that a boot record was found on IDE-1 (:confused: there were no cds loaded) and then would not boot anything.

    With the 40gig as Master and the 20gig as slave, neither were detected :(

    I'll probably put a HDD and a CD on each IDE with the HDDs as Master (as worked before), but can anyone tell me why it does this? Tis quite annoying.

    :)


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  • #2
    KdjaCL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    Main HD Master on 1
    Cd rom slave on 1

    CDRW Master on 2
    Linux as Slave on 2

    Windows and your CDR will function better as masters.
    Dunno much about Linux but assume it will function fine as a slave.

    kdjac


  • #3
    SouperComputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭SouperComputer


    dont wanna get in an IDE config debate, but a BIOS update if applicible might be a help too


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