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re: Suggestion for another "Top Reason" for XP crashes
Friday, January 13, 2006 at 6:19 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Maggy Rond
(3 messages posted)
What actually is typical is that there are two ways to configure it right and one
way that's wrong but that sometimes does work.
Right method 1:
-Put jumper on one drive as master, put jumper on second drive as slave. Connect
both to flatcable, 80 wire if one or both is ultra ATA 66, 100, 133, 80 or 40 wire
if both are older types or if controller is a vintage type.
Which connector on which drive should not matter.
Right method 2:
Put jumper on both drives in cable select position. Use only 80 wire cable with different
colored connectors and modern controller. Place the drive you want as master at the
end of the cable. In a single boot system you would probably install your operating
system on the primary partition of the master, but that's no law.
Wrong method: configure one as master or slave, the other as cable select. Probably
your BIOS won't see both drives but I've seen cases that it does work... but of course
this asks for instability
On Monday, February 21, 2005 at 10:43 pm, Ricer46 wrote:
>This is not typical, I think something else was going on. IDE drives don't require
>"termination."
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