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I STAND CORRECTED.

I run Win98 from IDE1, and lots of other things on removable drives on IDE2,
so I tend to only run with one channel on at a time.

Here's what I did: I turned the IDE2 on and let the computer boot into 98.
When I looked in My Computer, the hard drive on IDE2 was not listed and did
not show up until I ran the add/remove hardware applet. (in which case it
showed up as G: first, then E: after subsequent reboots.)

If 98 did in fact "scan", it failed to detect the drive. When "forced" to
look for other hardware though, it came up with the additional drive.

You were right, I was wrong. And I learned something. (Not the least of
which is not to SHOUT when I disagree. My apologies.)


"Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Mark B. <some@othertime.org> wrote in message
> news:JSbE8.77044$qU1.18400816@typhoon.nyroc.rr.com...
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> > INCORRECT!
>
> Fraid not.
>
> > Operating systems DO NOT just "see" IDE hard drives that
> > have not been detected by BIOS or configured in BIOS.
>
> Fraid so. Thats been true for years now,
> particularly with Win9x and the NT derivatives.
>
> > Very simple; if the IDE hard drive ain't listed in the
> > BIOS table, it ain't there as far as the OS is concerned.
>
> Fraid so. Win9x and the NT derivatives particularly
> scan for drives themselves, so it doesnt matter if the
> bios doesnt see them when the drive isnt the boot drive.
>
> > The exception is SCSI hard drives, in which case the SCSI
> > card must be able to access and recognize the drive.
>
> Fraid its much more complicated than you claim.
>
>
> > Philo <philo@plazaearth.com> wrote
>
> >> although you should have your bios
> >> set to auto...to detect the drive.
> >> even if it's not set in the bios...your operating
> >> system should still detect the drive.
> >> if you have not yet run fdisk and created partitions, it will not show
up
> >> so you need to do that and be sure that you partition your *second*
drive!
>
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