Hi. You might want to slave the Cdrom to the hard drive. I haven't actually built a machine as of yet, but hope this helps. ----- Original Message ----- From: Victor Tsaran <tsar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Speakup List <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 7:26 PM Subject: Strange things with my hard drive > Hell, listers! > I know some of you, especially Kerry, are big hardware specialists. Hope you > will be able to advise something for me this time as well. > I am putting together a new machine. Whenever I connect the hard drive to > the IDE0 and CDROM to IDE1, both on master, I get "hard disk failed...", but > CDROM is found. However, if I connect hard drive to IDE1 and CDROM to IDE0, > both to master, then both are recognized fine. Why is this hapenning? I > tried these combinations several times, and the same result comes out. > Can you suggest something? > Victor > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com