Hello D.,

Thursday, August 05, 1999, 1:20:01 AM, you wrote:

DC> I am currently trying to add a Maxtor 10GB drive to
DC> my current system..I have a fujitsu 6.4 presently. I have
DC> set the jumpers on the Maxtor to slave and am running
DC> it on the same ide cable as the Master(fujitsu)..I have
DC> formatted the drive(1 10GB partition) and the drive seems
DC> to not operate properly. Upon booting up..it takes my machine
DC> upwards of 5mins to boot now( before it was more like 90 secs).
DC> And I can copy a file to the new drive, but it takes a LONG time
DC> to do even a small ~50k file. and the file is sometimes not
DC> accessible...

Fiddle with master/slave, switch channels, this kind of stuff.

Have you set the Fujitsu to be "master" (it probably was "single")?

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