How are the drives on the primary controller and the Maxter configured, i.e.
WRT fdisk. Are they primary partitions, combinations of primary and logical
and/or logical only?

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ben Moore <[log in to unmask]>
>in the first post on this.
>>I've copied the original below as info.  The Maxtor drive that I'm trying
>to
>>add to the secondary ide controller will not run in anything but dos
>>compatibility mode even when it is the only device on the controller.
This
>>drive is assuming the designation "E" which was the zip drive.  I have no
>>entries in the config.sys that would be loading some weird driver for this
>>drive letter.  I've checked the registry for a NOIDE entry.  There was
none
>>present.  The drive works correctly on the primary controller.  As I said
>>earlier, CD and zip work correctly on the secondary.  Is there someplace
>I'm
>>not looking where some file is loading incorrect drivers for this device?
>>
>>Here's the original:
>>
>>I'm having a problem adding a hard drive to my PIII 450, Win98SE, Abit
>>BX6-2.  I have 2 hard drives on the primary IDE controller and an A-open
>32x
>>CD as master and a Zip as slave on the secondary.  I want to add an 8 GB
>>Maxtor drive to the secondary controller in place of the zip.  I removed
>the
>>zip and just replaced it with the hard drive as a slave to the CD.  The
>bios
>>recognizes everything correctly but in Win 98 I have no CD at all in
>>explorer or system properties and a yellow exclamation mark on the
>secondary
>>IDE controller showing that it's not working.  No conflicts are shown.
>Only
>>two hard drives are listed in system properties but I can access the new
>>drive, E,  which apparently is running in dos compatibility mode.  I
>changed
>>the jumpers on both the hard drive and the CD making the hard drive master
>>and the Cd slave.  Still the same thing.  I removed the main bus master
>>controller and let the system reinstall all the controllers.  Same
problem.
>>Of course, if I put the zip back in all is well.
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