Mail Archives: opendos/2001/02/14/19:06:18
Hi Joe,
See below.
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From: "da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 4:11 PM
Subject: RE: prob audio CD on 2nd CD-ROM with NWCDEX
> > It most likely is a combination of both. I just had a thought. What
if
> > you were to disable one of the drives in the CMOS setup and enable
the
> > one you want to use each time you want to change drives? I don't
know if
> > this will work. I don't have a lot of experience playing with IDE
stuff.
> > If the master and slave settings are purely a hardware thing, then
maybe
> > you can do it that way. But if you had a slave without a master and
it's
> > not just a hardware thing, then maybe you cannot do this in the CMOS
> > setup.
> Uhhh - last time I checked, ATAPI drives are always *disabled*
> in the BIOS "CMOS settings" ... however, I have not played
> around much with ATAPI-aware BIOSes so, perhaps there are
> now some ATAPI-specific BIOS settings that I am not aware
> of. Nevertheless, a "disabled" setting for your ATAPI drives is
> *always* appropriate and your safest option ...
Opppps,, you are right, I was thinking of ZIP and LS-120 and hard drives
at the time I thought of that. You can also leave it set to AUTO.
> Also, if you have a single drive on an IDE cable, you should
> always set this as master. Sure, sometimes a "slave" setting
> may work, but usually it doesn't work or causes trouble.
> Similarly, if there are two drives, one must be set as master,
> the other as slave.
No, No,
If you have a seingle drive it should be set as a single drive, this is
sometimes labled CHS but have seen other labels for it. (Talk about
standards they cannot even get that straight.) Many times this is just
not installing a jumper or putting it across two pins where it won't do
anything. Some drives have the CHS pins and other do not.(Again another
great standard.)
You may be able to run a single drive as a master, but I have always set
single drives to the single setting.
Pat
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