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SNAAAKE:
umm... ???
Kinda OT but here goes.

I have 2 hds on my system.
master drive is 80gb and slave is 120gb.
and a Liteon burner.
Now I set the jumper on the 80 as master and installed XP pro and set the jumper on the 120 as slave.
So can't have 2 HDs on same IDE port ?  ???
when my computer starts...it says "disk drive fail"

THEN.
I tried IDE socket 1 for the 80 gb master drive alone.
and my burner and 120gb slave drive is on IDE socket 2.

NOW,here is the problem again.
The computer can't detect the burner for some reason.

 WTF ? ? ?  ???

However,the computer CAN detect the burner when I pull out the IDE cable from the 120GB slave drive.

ANYONE has any clue ?
(Yes I know my English is funny but we all know that)  :P

pointdablame:
did you try going into your BIOS and auto-detecting the drives. Even if they show up correctly, re-detecting them can sometimes clear up problems. I'd also try another IDE cable just to rule that out.

u_rebelscum:
Not sure if you did this, but make the the master drive is on the end of the cable and the slave drive is plugged in the middle.

But, yes check the BIOS.  This is where most problems occur.

night:
take the jumper off the WD and put it on a channel by itself (taking a guess here ;D)

JustMichael:
It sounds like you are using ide cables that support "Cable Select."  What this means is that the connector on the end is for the master device and the middle one is for the slave device.  If your drives are set opposite to this they won't be detected.  While using these cables it is much easier to set the drive jumpers to "cable select" and then they will work just as they are plugged in.  The drive hooked to the end will be the master and the one hooked to the middle will be the slave.

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