Here's my 2 grosze or cents worth (whichever you prefer) (grin). As far as I know, if your cd-rom drive is alone on a controller, it should be jumpered as slave, unless of course there is something else on that controller with it. Greg On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:26:20AM +0100, Victor Tsaran wrote: > 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