Have you tried disabling DMA access for the drive
located
in Device Manager-->Hard Disk Properties. If that
solves
the problem you may need to update your HD controller
before re-enabling DMA access. Also, if you haven't
already,
try running the Maxtor as secondary solo or slave it
to primary
master. And verify what BIOS is reporting.

-yui shin

----- Original Message -----
Ben Moore:

> I apologize for not including all the information 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.
>
> I'm stumped.  Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Ben Moore

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