Secondary Slave

[Brian Kelsay]

Some Western Digital drives I've had wanted to be on CS, especially if the only drive in the chain.  I personally don't trust CS as far as I could throw it.  It can get confusing which drive you are using when installing an OS or a new bootloader.  CDRW drives like to be Secondary Master, but don't have to be.  When they first came out for IDE that was a general rule to installing one though.  Move the CDROM from SM to SS and put the CDRW on SM.  Or put the CDROM on as PS.  Can't remember which gives you better speed for CD to CD copy, but I imagine the best solution would be a drive controller and put em both on as masters.

Brian Kelsay

>>> "Brian Densmore" <> 12/10/04 10:58AM >>>
I've had problems with setups like this:

PM : HD
PS : CDROM
SM : none
SS : CDRW
[note this was by accident and I changed the
 jumper to make SS into SM to fix]

PM : HD
PS : none
SM : present but not detected
SS : CDRW
[I fixed this by moving the CDRW from SS to PS]

PM : HD
PS : none
SM : CDRW
SS : HD
[see above, also was able to fix by setting HD to 
 CableSelect mode]

I think the problems I had were due to a flaky HD.
So the short answer is: no it's not just you.
I think that some HDs are just flaky. What brand of
HD was it? Mine was either a Conner or Seagate or WD.
The PM being a Quantum Fireball. Of course it's also best
to *not* mix HD brands, or even oftentimes product lines.

Brian Densmore

> -----Original Message-----
> From: djgoku
> 
> Computer Setup:
> 
> Primary Master:     Hard Drive
> Primary Slave:       Nothing Present
> Secondary Master: Hard Drive #but no hard drive was presenting when
> trying to boot to cd.
> Secondary Slave:    DVD Player
> 
> I was trying to boot from the cdrom and it wasn't showing up in POST
> just the primary master hard drive. So I took the PM Hard drive out
> and just let the secondary boot by itself worked like a charm. I got
> it to work with the the below setup. Is this just me or does the bus
> not get scanned if a Secondary Master is present? Kinda weird I would
> think it would. This is probably the first time I have tried to boot
> from SM not present. Kinda weird though either way.
> 
> Primary Master:     Hard Drive
> Primary Slave:       DVD Player
> Secondary Master: Hard Drive 
> Secondary Slave:    Nothing Present
> 
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