On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:56:35 GMT, "George Hester"
<hesterloli@hotmail.com> wrote:

>This is quite strange. For one you want to make sure both drives on that
>channel are cable select.

I have no choice based on my setup. I have two removable drive bays,
one on ch.0 master and the other on ch.0 slave. I have no choice but
to implement CS - otherwise I would have to open the tray and change
the jumper everytime I switched drawers.

>For another the fact the op sys hangs we need to
>know when this happens. Does the machine ever get out of the POST?

I said Win2K hangs. It gets out of POST and reports the existence of
the drive. That tells me it is not a cable select problem.

>This is
>usually an indication there is a loss of the op sys recognizing the new
>hardware. That I suspect is the issue.

Yes, I agree. Now, why is that the case? I got the drive from my son
and it works with XP.

>If it works in XP then is should work in Win2000.

You would think so, but I thought I read where there is some
incompatibilty issue.

>I would just try again changinhg Master to last connection on Cable
>(No Cable Select) and put the slave on the first connector (No Cable
>Select). Try it and see it is not a major overhaul.

I don't understand what you just said. I have said repeatedly that I
must implement CS on the IDE connection. I have no choice. I cannot
hard-wire master vs slave.

I'll bet the problem is that Win2K/SP4 does not have an appropriate
driver for that drive so it hangs. Seagate crap isn't worth the powder
to blow it to Hell, so I really don't want the piece of shit in my
computer to begin with. But my son offered it, and so I am obliged to
try it. Actually I am glad it does not work.


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