On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:57:26 +0100, Gerry_uk <gerry666uk@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>If the two drives are from different era's it's possible there's a
>signal conflict when you have them on the same cable?

That's a bummer.

>I had a problem with a Dell computer recently where I had to set very
>specific master/slave jumpers and check UDMA specs before I could get
>both drives to work together. Make sure the cables are the correct spec
>too (IDE vs UDMA).

I have the latest official ATA-133 Cable Select 80-wire ribbon cable -
the kind that is keyed with a blue connector for the mainboard side of
IDE. I have never seen anything called "UDMA" explicitly.

>Have you tried putting them on separate IDE controllers, two cables, one
>master, one slave?

No, I did not try that because it defeats the purpose of my removable
drive bays. If I have to do that, I don't want the drive.

>If it was me, I'd test both drives individually under DOS with NTFS and
>UDMA drivers, then test together, and note any issues before trying to
>boot Win2k.
My son is going to reformat it with FAT32. It might be that his XP/SP2
NTFS is not compatible with my Win2K/SP4 NTFS.

If the truth be known, I wish he would just throw that piece of shit
Seagate away. I despise Seagate. I guess having ST-120s (the very old
20 MB MFM drive of a bygonne era) stick all the time did it for me.


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