Re: [Hampshire] Cannot boot from ide HDD when slave attached

Antony wrote:
> Martin N wrote:
>
>> The problem is that the seagate master will boot only on its own.
>> When a samsung (slave jumpered drive) is attached to the second ide
>> connector on the single cable it gives a non system disk error!
>>
>> The gigabyte is a new board with the old hard drives transfered across
>> physically from an old asus motherboard. This arrangement was fine on
>> the old asus motherboard.
>>
>> I have checked the jumpers are correct with the seagate being a master
>> and the samsung set as slave. The samsung is picked up correctly in the
>> bios
>> along with the seagate drive.
>>
>
> Some older drives have two varieties of master jumper setting: master
> when used with another drive, and master with no other drive. TBH
> that's just recalled by association and may be completely irrelevant,
> but I'd add it low down on my list of checks.

You might also want to try 'cable select' if available, with the cables
and jumpers set up accordingly. Never used it myself but it must be good
for something eh?

Sean