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Spaced Invader:

--- Quote from: Lilwolf on August 11, 2003, 12:26:37 pm ---Common problem.

IDE drives are really MFM drives (any oldschoolers here) that have the controller on the harddrive itself.  The ide controller on your motherboard is basically a passthrough to it.  Thats how they got around all the wierd drive parameters (remeber back when you had a list of ,like 40 drive heads/cylindars combos to pick out).

Anyway...

When you slave one drive... You disable the controller from it's board... And it uses the controller from the other drive.  So any problems between brands... and they wont work.


The best part is that My two maxtors didn't work together for a LONG time.   I had to have them on seperate cables and my cd roms as slaves... Where it would have been better to keep them on one (for me anyway).

I'm not saying I know a solution... but its a common problem.  Best to just play around with them until they are all there.... You might find that just swapping them around will do.

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This is also true...some drives just don't like each other. Only solution I know is an extra IDE card (OS sees it as SCSI). The plus is support for up to eight drives or four on their own controller. The minus is cost and loss of a PCI slot. Of course this isn't really a solution...just dancing around the problem. Luckily none of my three multidrive systems have drives that won't play nice. I did "correct" my brothers system with an extra IDE card for the second HD (CD was on the systems second channel to make it bootable).

Anyway, I'm rambeling...eh...sorry...I'll go away now.  ;D

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