Topic: Master and Slave, no interrogations, sorry :)
Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
Member # 33
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Yes, this is a question about Masters and Slaves. Well sort of.
This is also a question about Primary and Secondary IDE Hard Drives. Tricked ya, huh?
Anyways, here is the situation: I just got my old computer from my parents, and a new 20 GB removable hard drive and I just tried installing it as the Primary Master. The old hard drive is now the Secondary Master, while the CD-Rom is now the Secondary slave (was Secondary Master). The CD-ROM was working before I installed the new HD, and yes, I adjusted the jumpers to say Slave, and I made sure that it was plugged in properly.
If I remove the Primary master, then the secondary master kicks in, loads up Windows 98 and recognizes the CD-ROM
If I insert the Primary master, it loads up the Win98, then the secondary master becomes the D drive, but wait, the CD-ROM is not recognized. No E Drive, nothing.
I have tried reinstalling Win 98 several times, but to no avail. Can someone help me?
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Start-->Run... Type in "msconfig" Go to config.sys and look for a line that says "LASTDRIVE=D" where D could be any letter. Click on that line, and choose Edit. Change the letter to Z. Save it, and then reboot. See if that works.
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Charles Capps
We appreciate your concern. It is noted and stupid.
Member # 9
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Many CD drives flat out do NOT like being secondary slave. Lastdrive is very unlikely to exist unless your system was upgraded from DOS/Win31...
Try putting both hard drives on the primary channel, then making the CD secondary master. If that fails, put the old/second hard drive as secondary master. One of those configs is likely to work.
------------------ "Babies are squirmy, ugly, dirty, smelly, and noisy. They'd offend all five of my senses if I had any reason to lick one..." -- TSN, 2001.01.11 23:27, PhoenixChat
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A few years back we used three removable hard drives at my work. We thought they were the shit, as the technology was relatively new at the time. Within a couple months, though, they all ended up defective. I hope yours fares better.
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Why have Windows on both harddrives??? You'd have to watch them like a hawk to be sure both drives have the same resources. Suddenly you start a program and the new drivers to this program is on the other drive. If I would choose, I'd put Win98 and your programs on the non-removable and put the multimedia-files and documents on the removable one.
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Charles Capps
We appreciate your concern. It is noted and stupid.
Member # 9
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Your CD as primary slave should work. SHOULD.
------------------ "Babies are squirmy, ugly, dirty, smelly, and noisy. They'd offend all five of my senses if I had any reason to lick one..." -- TSN, 2001.01.11 23:27, PhoenixChat
[This message has been edited by Charles Capps (edited January 17, 2001).]
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Yes, but if there is nothing there it will skip it, like the A:. My system is set up to try the A:, then the E:, then the C:. Only screws things up if I leave something in I shouldn't have.
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Some new BIOSes can change the easily, including recognizing which devices are which (i.e. zip drives, CDs, DVDs, and HDDs)...
------------------ "Babies are squirmy, ugly, dirty, smelly, and noisy. They'd offend all five of my senses if I had any reason to lick one..." -- TSN, 2001.01.11 23:27, PhoenixChat
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