2 HD's and 2 CD-Roms

[Guest]

Ok, I am trying to setup

HD #1 - 10 Gig XP installe
HD#2 - 40 Gig NTFS formatted
CD#1 - CD Burner
CD#2 - DVD Ro

If I setup: IDE1 - HD#1 Master, HD#2 Slave and IDE2 CD#1 M and CD#2 S --- Will boot into Windows, but both CD's will not work, error on boot Secondary Master and Slave are not ATPI compatable. (Press F1 to continue

If I setup IDE1 - HD#1 Master and CD#1 Slave and IDE2 HD#2 Master and CD#2 Slave - Will not boot into Windows - this happens if I setup HD#2 on IDE2 no matter what

I used to have IDE1 - HD#1 Master and IDE2 CD#1 master and CD#2 Slave, and would get ATPI error on boot but both CD's would work in Windows

Note : HD#2 has some cluster issues, works fine for storing files, but I do not want to use it as my XP boot drive

Please help and suggestions that you could provide would be great.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Check jumpers at the rear of each drive..... ensure that one is NOT set as
CS (Cable Select) by accident)

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Check to see:

If both IDE ports are enabled in BIOS

If the drives on IDE2 are correctly set Master/Slave

Chkec the cables and replace with known good cables