Mail Archives: opendos/2001/02/14/19:51:54
You are partly correct.
Older drives had three settings :
1. Master drive without slave (aka. single drive).
2. Master drive with slave.
3. Slave drive.
Newer drives have combined 1 & 2 by adding a few
more "smarts" to their firmware.
Joe.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Moran [SMTP:pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, 15 February 2001 11:05
> To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: prob audio CD on 2nd CD-ROM with NWCDEX
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> See below.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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