Concur....BIOS support is crucial...(laffing hysterically)..

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...

It might go: on the IDE...MB to slave to master...in that order.

I had an Intel MB that did the same thing...and thats the way I had to
install the drives...

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...

Set the master to "master" on the jumpers..and slave to "slave" on the
varying drives...XP does the rest...

Hope it helps....

I tried all that even changed IDE cables and nothing
B
<hiredgun56@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Concur....BIOS support is crucial...(laffing hysterically)..
>
> 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...
>
> It might go: on the IDE...MB to slave to master...in that order.
>
> I had an Intel MB that did the same thing...and thats the way I had to
> install the drives...
>
> 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...
>
> Set the master to "master" on the jumpers..and slave to "slave" on the
> varying drives...XP does the rest...
>
> Hope it helps....
>

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
> B
> <hiredgun56@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1135868048.885261.181680@f14g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...
>> Concur....BIOS support is crucial...(laffing hysterically)..
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> It might go: on the IDE...MB to slave to master...in that order.
>>
>> I had an Intel MB that did the same thing...and thats the way I had to
>> install the drives...
>>
>> 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...
>>
>> Set the master to "master" on the jumpers..and slave to "slave" on the
>> varying drives...XP does the rest...
>>
>> Hope it helps....
>>
>
>

hiredgun56@gmail.com wrote:
>
> 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...

True for the 80 conductor cable. Not an issue tho for the standard 40
pin/conductor cable.


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