My thanks to both ??? and Rick G who kindly responded some weeks ago to the
subject dilemma.  Not long after I posed the scenario I set it aside and
have not really gotten back to it.  I tried the Western Digital website and
some of their installation tools.  I also swapped cables and combinations of
cables and dip switches.  Nothing I did got the CD up and running inside the
OS.  And since it has (temporarily) become a moot point, it sits on the
sidelines until I get time to revisit it.  I'm not sure what I'm doing (or
not) but thanks for the support.  If someone can offer other insights I'd be
grateful.

Brian


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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Unable to Load CD-ROM Drivers


I've never seen a BIOS choice of booting to IDE 0....
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