I had alot of trouble trying to get it to boot from cdrom
even though the hard drive was set to master with a slave.
I tried all sorts of jumper and bios settings. I then swapped
the cable connection and the bios now saw both the hard
drive and the cdrom! it's like it insisted on using cable
select to determine whether it was master or slave.
anyway I just wanted to throw that out there in case someone
else has trouble getting the bios to see both the master
hard drive and a slave cdrom. give that a shot.
02-04-2003 18:07:47
RE:IDE cable hard drive connection - adding a slave cdrom (modified 0 times)
it might be because of the order of the drives, since you're supposed to put the slave in the middle, and the master at the end. Most motherboards i've seen are pretty tolerant, but some don't like it.
02-04-2003 18:11:53
RE:IDE cable hard drive connection - adding a slave cdrom (modified 0 times)
You have to add CDROM in the BOOT ORDER in the BIOS, in addition to Setting the WD hard drive to master(dual) and your CDrom to slave. Hope that helps.
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