HD Recognition

[Bernie P.]

I have an IBM-DTTA 351010 HD set as the Primary Master and
a MAXTOR 6E030L0 as the Primary Slave. The System
recognizes the MAXTOR while booting, but My Computer or
Windows Explorer do not show it once the System is up and
running. The jumpers are currently set as shown on the HD,
but other combinations have not solved the problem.

If I were to make the MAXTOR Master and the IBM
Slave.....all is well.
The OS is Windows98 (First Edition).
Thanks for your help!

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"Bernie P." wrote:

> I have an IBM-DTTA 351010 HD set as the Primary Master and
> a MAXTOR 6E030L0 as the Primary Slave. The System
> recognizes the MAXTOR while booting, but My Computer or
> Windows Explorer do not show it once the System is up and
> running. The jumpers are currently set as shown on the HD,
> but other combinations have not solved the problem.
>
> If I were to make the MAXTOR Master and the IBM
> Slave.....all is well.
> The OS is Windows98 (First Edition).
> Thanks for your help!

If the IDE controller is ATA66 or greater you may need to set
both drives as "Cable Select" for them to work properly.
Also, when doing so, the primary needs to be on the end
connector and the secondary should be on the intermediate
connector. You also need a ATA cable, which is normally
identified with a blue connector that connects at the
controller.

CONTROLLER(Blue) -------->
SECONDARY(Grey)------------->PRIMARY(Black)

gm

[Ron Martell]

"Bernie P." > wrote:

>I have an IBM-DTTA 351010 HD set as the Primary Master and
>a MAXTOR 6E030L0 as the Primary Slave. The System
>recognizes the MAXTOR while booting, but My Computer or
>Windows Explorer do not show it once the System is up and
>running. The jumpers are currently set as shown on the HD,
>but other combinations have not solved the problem.
>
>If I were to make the MAXTOR Master and the IBM
>Slave.....all is well.
>The OS is Windows98 (First Edition).
>Thanks for your help!

I have encountered problems similar to this before with hard drives
that are from different manufacturers and when one of the drives is
several years older than the other.

The only solution that I have found is to reconfigure the drive
connections so that the one drive is the primary master and the other
is the secondary master. The CDROM etc have to be connected as slave
drives.

Good luck


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."

[Gerry Voras]

Maxtor's have this grumpy little habit of not liking to be slaves. Try
moving it to secondary master.

"Bernie P." > wrote in message
...
> I have an IBM-DTTA 351010 HD set as the Primary Master and
> a MAXTOR 6E030L0 as the Primary Slave. The System
> recognizes the MAXTOR while booting, but My Computer or
> Windows Explorer do not show it once the System is up and
> running. The jumpers are currently set as shown on the HD,
> but other combinations have not solved the problem.
>
> If I were to make the MAXTOR Master and the IBM
> Slave.....all is well.
> The OS is Windows98 (First Edition).
> Thanks for your help!