Re: Weird probs with dual Quantum IDE HD's

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From: Andrew Dennison 8296
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 00:00

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David Gilliver (dgillive@macqbl.com.au) wrote:
: Hopefully, I'm overlooking something very simple here...

: I bought a new PC mid-95 (P90, 4x IDE CD-ROM, 1Gb IDE Quantum Fireball, Diamond
: Stealth 2Mb DRAM, 16Mb RAM).

[chomp]

: I tried removing the 1Gb disk and booting the 170Mb disk as master. I got this
: working to the point where I installed DOS on it. As soon as I hooked this drive
: up as slave again, I could now "see" the partitions on the slave but when I tried
: making use of it, it was obvious it was pretty screwed up. Running scandisk on it
: caused continual, changing errors. Basically, it was one sick puppy.

Maybe your bios can't handle having a mode 4 drive (fireball) and a mode 0 drive on the same IDE channel. Try disconnecting the CDROM and then making the 170MB 
drive the master on IDE channel 2. This seems much more like a hardware problem
than a software one..

Andrew

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From: aden@cim.cim.swin.edu.au (Andrew Dennison 8296)
Subject: Re: Weird probs with dual Quantum IDE HD's
Date: 1996/01/15
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