You only want the first drive as master and second drive as slave if they are on the same cable; and in fact considering that an ide drive will latch the bus and not allow another drive to do a transferr whilst it is busy unless overlap ata is supported it is best to put both high-speed devices i.e. drives on separate cables and slave your cdrom to the secondary channel if possible. This way data flow is not stalled if one drive is allways beeing accessed and you want to access the other drive at the same time. This also lets you do RAID on ide drives with maximum efficency without buying an ide raid card i.e. software RAID. Regards, Kerry. On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 03:59:04PM -0600, Richard Villa wrote: > Well, > > First off, you need to make sure that the drives are set up correctly. > The jumpers need to be configured so that the first drive is the master, > and the second drive is the slave. > Next I would boot the machine with a dos floppy to make sure that the > system sees both drives. > TThen you need to partition the new drive, and if you are going to want > any dos partitions one the drive allocate and format them. > > Now you should be able to do your install. > > Richard > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au
