The Bios is set to Autodetect on IDE 0 slave?
Did you try connecting each drive to a different IDE channel?
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Ron Sommer

"Me2Ewe" <blawrence@shaw.ca> wrote in message
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>I tried all that even changed IDE cables and nothing
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> <hiredgun56@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Concur....BIOS support is crucial...(laffing hysterically)..
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>> Check the IDE cable too....sometimes, the master drive has to go on the
>> last coupling..and the slave, in between the motherboard and the master
>> drive...
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>> It might go: on the IDE...MB to slave to master...in that order.
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>> I had an Intel MB that did the same thing...and thats the way I had to
>> install the drives...
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>> I dont think the hard drive capacity has that much to do with it...15
>> to 40....isnt that great a range...now if it was 15 to 120...might be
>> an issue...
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>> Set the master to "master" on the jumpers..and slave to "slave" on the
>> varying drives...XP does the rest...
>>
>> Hope it helps....
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