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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!its.csiro.au!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cyber2.cyberstore.ca!nwnexus!deanstoy!dean From: dean@deanstoy.wa.com (Dean M. Phillips) Subject: Re: booteasy problem: 2 IDE drives References: <CMsw6M.DJ0@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Organization: None whatsoever! Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 00:57:45 GMT Message-ID: <CMu5Co.4x6@deanstoy.wa.com> Summary: Fix your jumpers Lines: 33 In article <CMsw6M.DJ0@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> pi@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (Raymond L. Gilbert) writes: > The situation I wanted to set up was to have my 124 meg IDE >MS-DOS drive as the 1st drive, and my 340 meg IDE FreeBSD drive as the >2nd drive. When I tried to boot my computer, it sat there for a long >time and finally gave me the insightful message: > >Error Reading drive D: >Press F1 to resume You did not mention jumpers. An IDE drive has three ways to set the addressing jumpers: 1) The only drive in the system. 2) The master in a two drive system. 3) The slave in a two drive system. Things will not work if the jumpers are wrong. Every drive I have seen has come from the store configured as an only drive with no instructions concerning the jumpers. Heaven forbid that an end user should ever attempt to upgrade a system himself :-#) You can either nag the outfit that sold you the drive, call a repair shop and ask for help or, (if there are only two or three jumpers) frob with them until things work. I know the settings for Maxtor 7120 AT and Western Digital AC2340, which are happily cooperating in my system. Does anyone want to start collecting them for the FAQ? -- Dean M. Phillips Microsoft free and proud of it! dean@deanstoy.wa.com