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I bought a new Maxtor 40GB HDD (D540X-4K, Ultra DMA 100 5400 RPM) and the Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 PCI Adapter card with it. I already have a 13 GB Maxtor (which is a coincidence) HDD in my pc hooked up with on-board primary IDE controller as Pri-Master. I have a CD-ROM drive and a CD Burner hooked up on Secondary controller as Sec-Master and Slave respectively. The BIOS is Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG ( 2A69KD4FC , 04/08/99 ). I installed the ATA card and formatted HDD with MaxtorBlast utility that comes with HDD. I have Win98 and am able to see the drive at D: from windows explorer. The HDD is connected as slave on the ATA card. My problem is this:
I am not able to use the new drive as Primary Slave. The HDD manual says that I need two jumpers to make it slave where as the sticker on HDD says I need only one jumper and the drive came only with one jumper which I have set up as slave. If I connect the new HDD as pri-slave with the on-board controller, the BIOS is not able to detect it (which I think is obvious since it is UDMA 33). I can hookup the drive as slave on the new adatper card and it works fine. If I hookup the pri-master as the master on the new adapter card, it won't work; the BIOS says Primary Master Failure ( don't remember the exact message). If the old HDD is on on-board controller and pri-master and the new one is on the new adapter as slave it works fine: the BIOS detects the pri-master, doesnt detect slave (since I kept it as AUTO detect in BIOS, tried none too and still works with next step), the Promise technology BIOS on adapter card kicks in and detects the new HDD, the system starts and config shows pri-master, none for slave, the two CD drives (ROM and RW) on Secondary, Win 98 starts and I can see the new drive as D:. I'll like to be able to use both the drives together as master and slave. I plan to use two different OS on both the drives and switch one to pri and other to slave as and when needed.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
I am not able to use the new drive as Primary Slave. The HDD manual says that I need two jumpers to make it slave where as the sticker on HDD says I need only one jumper and the drive came only with one jumper which I have set up as slave. If I connect the new HDD as pri-slave with the on-board controller, the BIOS is not able to detect it (which I think is obvious since it is UDMA 33). I can hookup the drive as slave on the new adatper card and it works fine. If I hookup the pri-master as the master on the new adapter card, it won't work; the BIOS says Primary Master Failure ( don't remember the exact message). If the old HDD is on on-board controller and pri-master and the new one is on the new adapter as slave it works fine: the BIOS detects the pri-master, doesnt detect slave (since I kept it as AUTO detect in BIOS, tried none too and still works with next step), the Promise technology BIOS on adapter card kicks in and detects the new HDD, the system starts and config shows pri-master, none for slave, the two CD drives (ROM and RW) on Secondary, Win 98 starts and I can see the new drive as D:. I'll like to be able to use both the drives together as master and slave. I plan to use two different OS on both the drives and switch one to pri and other to slave as and when needed.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!