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On 15 Dec 98 at 22:38, johnfarrow wrote:
> If I install a second drive that has been properly formatted/fdisked
> with an active partition and has win-95 installed as a master on the
> secondary controller.....,to a system that has win-98 drive installed as
> master on primary.......,that only the drive on the primary controller
> will boot and not reconigze the drive on the secondary?
It will *recognize* it, and call it "D:". It won't *boot* from it.
There are no file systems that Win95 supports (natively) that are not
also supported in Win98, so all of the partitions on the secondary
should be visible.
> occasionally boot to the secondary by telling CMOS that there is not a
> drive in the primary and therefore be able to boot into win-95 when
> desired and this procedure controlled solely by turning on and off the
> primary in the CMOS.
I believe you must actually mark the primary controller as Disabled
to get this effect. I have a machine on which the primary channel
doesn't work, and so it boots from the master drive on the secondary
channel when the primary is Disabled.
David G
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