I have had old IDE drives like that not be recognized as a slave. I
would put it on the Secondary IDE as a master and see if it shows
up. Another reason why you would want to do that is the IDE
channels only operate as fast as the slowest device on that
channel. By having the old slower HD with the fast new HD you
limit the speed to the old HD's, and negate any faster speed on the
new one.

> Hi Everyone,
> After building a new Pentium system, the person wanted to save the Autobody
> Database program she had on the old system.The program is called Q&A from
> Symantec(no longer supported) and is DOS based! She was running WIN
> 3.11(non-networked). I took her old 840MB Quantum HDD and made it the slave
> off of the 1st IDE(I tried both slave and CS jumper positions) but when the
> new drive boots up to win98, I cannot see this slave drive? I can
> auto-detect through the BIOS and the correct C/H/S info is shown for each
> drive. If I reverse the situation and make the Quantum the master and the
> 6.4GB fugitsu the slave, then I'm prompted for the boot disk....would this
> be a DOS or Win 3.11 boot disk? I have neither of these. How can I transfer
> the program over to the big drive? Will a Zip Drive work in this situation?
> Thanks everyone.


Dale Laluk / [log in to unmask]
P.O. Box 308
Hudson's Hope, B.C. V0C 1V0
250-783-9921

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