Set the hard drive (Maxter, new) as the master and the CD as the slave. Some
hard drives do no like being a slave to a CD. There are very arrogant <G>.

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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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