Rick Christian wrote:
>
> Recently purchased an Acer CRW-6206A CD-RW drive, and plan
> to add to my existing system.
> I plan on moving the NEC to IDE1 as a slave and to have both the
> Acer CD-ROM & CD-RW on IDE 2 with the CD as Master and CD-
> RW as Slave which is what mfg. suggests.
>
> Should I remove the NEC from the hardware settings of WIN98
> FIRST, then change from IDE2 to IDE1?
> OR
> Should I just switch the drive from IDE2 to IDE1 and Win98 won't
> have problem with the change from IDE2 to 1 (yeah, right)?

Windows doesn't keep track of such low level information, so you're safe
in just rearranging the drives as you see fit. The next time you power
up, your BIOS may or may not complain that the current configuration
doesn't match the saved CMOS settings. If it's set to Auto-detect, you
probably won't hear a peep. Otherwise, you'll likely be taken to your
Setup screen, where you'll have a chance to tell the machine what's
installed where. Do so, then save your changes and exit. It's really
that simple.


Jeff Delzer

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