"James Leo Woodford, Jr." wrote: > Erik, > > The floppy drive will be connected to the connector > that is not the same size as the other two. It will be > on that connector by itself. > > The hard drive should be attached to primary IDE > connector. This is the "1st" on the connectors that > look the same and should be marked something like IDE1 > or PRIMARY. It should be connected as a single drive > with no master. > > The CDROM should be attached to the secondary IDE > connector as a Master and the CD/RW should also be > attached to the same connector as the Slave. The > Master/Slave is done on 1 ribbon cable. Hope that > helps. > Sometimes when you use Adaptec software, you have to leave CD/R (or CD/RW) as 2nd Master, otherwise it may create problem. I haven't found why it does so, but it happened to me twise already. As the result, I always set CD/R as 2nd Master if possible. Jun Qian Curious about the people moderating your messages? Visit our staff web site: http://nospin.com/pc/staff.html