Drive,s configuration

[David Routh]

Hi

I have a small problem on boot up, 8 times out 10 it hangs on the post
screen for approx 45 seconds at the 4th line,
Auto Detecting Primary Slave... Press <F4> To Abort
although nothing happens if I press F4, the other 2 times it goes straight
through, beeps and boots.
I think the problem is with the jumpers, if I take out my CD-RW and boot
with just Hard drive in IDE 1 and CD-Rom in IDE2 it boots no problem every
time, my set up at present is
Maxtor Diamond max Hard Drive as master on IDE 1, jumper on master
CD-Rom as master on IDE 2, jumper on master
CD-RW as slave on IDE 2, jumper on slave
Can anyone advise me as to best drive configuration and what the jumpers on
each drive should be set at.

Dave

 

[Guest]

Dave: I do know that if you remove the jumpers from the second drive it automatically becoes the slave drive. No jumper is required to configure the drive as a Slave. Also, the vertical jumper over the J50 & J48 ? pins is configuring the drive as a Master. top & bottom left = master.
Now you tell me where I can find instruction on how to deal with master/slave configured drives. Presently I do not know how to access my D: drive