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lokmad
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_ 		15. July 2005 @ 18:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hello, I'm new here so please bare with me.

When I first bought my PC I had one drive; a Western Digital 20 gig. I then added a "Maxtor 160 GB Diamond Plus 9" earlier this year, which has since become full of various media. About a month ago, the Western Digital died on me. Thankfully I was covered and Packard Bell sent out a replacement, a "Maxtor 20 gig Diamond Plus 8" which is now the OS drive with a copy of XP Home on it. All great so far huh?

However, when I tried to install the media drive as a slave to the OS drive, BIOS did not recognize it. The jumper settings are definitely correct, and I've even tried using a CS jumper setting on both drives but that doesn't work either. The only way the BIOS has recognized it so far is by putting the media drive on the secondary IDE port, as a master. However, this leaves me without a CD drive! The media drive had no problems whatsoever with my old Western Digital.
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ddp
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_ 		15. July 2005 @ 18:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
you tried the 20 jumpered as master & the 160 jumpered as slave. did the bios see the master drive?? how many drives do you have & on what ide cables??
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lokmad
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_ 		15. July 2005 @ 19:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yes, the OS drive was jumpered as master and the media drive was jumpered as the slave. These were connected to the primary IDE port on the motherboard, using a cable that had 3 connections:

A blue connecter (begining of cable) on the motherboard, a grey connecter on the slave drive (middle of the cable)a and a black cable on the master drive (end of the cable)

The secondary IDE port is connected to my RICOH MP5125A, which is my CD/DVD writing drive.
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ddp
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_ 		15. July 2005 @ 19:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
can put the cd/dvd drive as slave to 160gig
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lokmad
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_ 		15. July 2005 @ 19:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I thought that it was a tried and tested rule that you don't mix Hard Drives and CD drives?
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ddp
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_ 		15. July 2005 @ 19:12 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
prefer the hd as master & rom drives as slaves
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lokmad
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_ 		16. July 2005 @ 02:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This may not work though, as my hard drives are far away from the optical drive, in the chassis. The positioning may not permit it.
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shuboy00
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_ 		22. July 2005 @ 13:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I am having the same problem as lokmad...is it not a good idea to position the second hard drive to where it can be attached but at the same time let it sit on the bottom of the chassis?
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ddp
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_ 		22. July 2005 @ 13:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
as long as you have air movement aound the drives as that somewhat dictates the location of the hd's
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