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.

I'm stumped.  Anyone have any ideas?

Ben Moore

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