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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 09:50:10 MST
- From: haymoree@newyork.et.byu.edu (Edward Haymore)
- Subject: Re: 2 IDE drives
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- References: <1993Jan11.143843.17897@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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- Wolfgang Schwanke (wolfi@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
- | jon@sed.stel.com (Jon Radel) writes:
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- | >In article <1993Jan7.160826.1605@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> cwatters@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Coyt D Watters) writes:
- | >>Can I just hook up another IDE drive and change the CMOS, or do I have to
- | >>bother with the master/slave problems I've read about?
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- | I have connected 2 IDE drives just two weeks ago. You have to configure
- | "master" and "slave" using jumper settings on the disks. I had a hard time
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- If you have a controller that controls 2 hard drives, you shouldn't have to
- set them up as master/slave. If your controller controls only one hard
- drive, then you do have to hook the two drives up as master/slave. In either
- case, you'll have to add the second hard drive to the CMOS settings.
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- I would expect that hooking the drives up as master/slave would require
- them to be a lot more compatible than connecting them to a 2HD controller.
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- Ed Haymore
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