There shouldn't be 2 master IDE drives on same IDE channal? I think the jumper
setting is wrong. Can you change the CD-ROM to slave?

J Qian

"Stephen SL. Lo" wrote:

> My PC (PII 266 with Win 98) originally has a HD (name it as "1st") and
> a CD-Rom connected to the primary IDE controller as master and slave
> respectively. I added a 2nd HD (nname it as "2nd"), connected to the
> seconard IDE controller as master. The 1st HD has only a single primary
> partition, (C:) Dos FAT32, active with Win98 as the OS. After physical
> connection of the 2nd HD I fdisk-ed it into a single extended partition
> with 2 logical drives (D:, E:; my cd-rom is Z:). Everything gose perfect
> in the BIO detecting stage, It shows Disk 0 (primary master) for the 1st,
> disk 2 (secondary master) 2nd. But my pc fails to boot I only get a black
> screen and a blinking curser, no warning message as invalid OS disk. I
> started it up with a startup disk and  checked with fdisk. I strangely
> found that the disk order is reversed. Disk 1 is 2nd (secondary
> master)with
> an ext partition (D:& E:) Disk 2 is 1st (Primary master) with primary
> partition (C:). This order is contradic to the phisical connection in the
> MB and the BIO. and I think that is why the booting fails.

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