Secondary Slave

[djgoku]

All hardware is new and in working condition. But for some reason if
no SM present the SS doesn't show up.


On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:42:13 -0600, Jonathan Hutchins
<hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:
> On Friday 10 December 2004 09:53 am, djgoku wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Sure, but some IDE hardware, particularly older IDE hardware, does not play
> well in certain configurations.  Some HD's won't be slaves no matter how you
> jumper them, some CD drives won't be anything but slaves.
> 
> Check for alternate jumper settings, or just live with a slightly different
> drive order.
> 
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