Howling Wolf
We did not deserve this !
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Find a spare jumper so that on the 2nd ide channel, devices are properly set as master and slave.percy said:i connected 1 hdd + cdrom on the 1 channel and 2nd hdd to the 2 IDE channel. reboot then the cdrom came out. the 1 hdd was the primary (maxtor with jumper j50) and the cdrom with jumper at slave. the 2nd hdd did not show up on the winexplorer, the 2nd hdd is on the 2nd IDE channel because probably it has no jumper since it is a maxtor and it needs a jumper to be a master and i have no jumper it would think that it is a slave. would it?
thanks.
any other configuration that i need to do?
have a great day.
In my own experience (I have 2 Maxtor hdd drives), Maxtor drives do not require a jumper to be master if they're alone on an ide channel, once you put a second device, you have to set a jumper on the Maxtor drive for it to be either slave or master (Windows doesn't mind if the hdd drive is slave or master to boot).