Hardware Question

[Gregory Nowak]

Yeah, he should look at the bios first. However, my intention was to get the jumpers set first, see if it works as is, then if not, yes, do check the bios. I avoided the secondary controller option, because most 486 machines I've seen had to ide ports, that were in fact the one and only controller. So, I didn't want to totally confuse him, if this happened to be the case with his motherboard.
Greg


On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:34:32PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 
> > You need to set a jumper on the hard drive as master (I've also seen some older drives where there was a master with slave option, use that if your drive has such a setting). You also need to set your cd-rom drive's jumper to slave. Hth.
> > Greg
> ok, just to add to this, you'll need to check your cmos/bios setings to
> ensure that your drives are being detected correctly.
> it's not just a matter of setting the jumpers and hoping for the best.
> this is where alot of people go wrong.
> if possible put the cdrom on a seperate ide controler and I personally
> would set it as secondary master. I will stand to be corrected on this but
> if that doesn't work, slave it to your hard drive as either a primary
> slave on the primary ide controler or as a secondary slave on the
> secondary ide controler.
> please feel free to correct me anyone as I don't always get things right.
> -- 
> qShaun Oliver
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