On Thursday 13 October 2005 10:49, Anthony Anson wrote:
The message 200510131030.08097.matt@mpcontracting.co.uk
from Matt Parker matt@mpcontracting.co.uk contains these words:
Can you set all the IDE devices to "cable select"? I don't normally do this myself in normal running, but it would let the devices sort out amongst themselves how they'd like to operate - a useful debugging step I think.
Do you mean make-up another cable, or just use ordinary IDE unmodified cables and set the devices to cable-select?
If it rearranges things to its satisfaction, it might reallocate C: and not want to boot...
On the jumpers on the drives you should see M/S/CS (master/slave/cable select). This will mean that the devices negotiate their IDE master/slave status between themselves automatically. You'll need to set all the channels to "auto" in the BIOS as well.
If you make sure the bootable HD is on IDE channel 1 (physically, on the motherboard) then that should automatically be picked as the boot device.
No new cables required.
Matt