I have a Yamaha F1 CD Writer and a Maxdor 80GB HD on a MSI KT7 Mainboard and i try do conect it on the Primary IDE the Writer as Slave and the HD as Master but when I do so the HD can be found from the BIOS. When I conect the HD as Slave and the Writer as Master it will work.
1.) Check the jumper settings on the devices, and make sure that you don't have them set incorrectly.
<A HREF="http://www.yamahamultimedia.com/yec/level4.aspx?Level3ID=10001&Level3Name=CRW-F1+SERIES&Level3ImagePath=faq\Level310001.jpg" target="_new">Yamaha Help Center</A>
<A HREF="http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_sid=mO8syOgg&p_lva=&p_faqid=887&p_created=1011383315&p_sp=cF9ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTUyNSZwX3BhZ2U9MQ**&p_li=" target="_new">Jumper Settings for Maxtor and Quantum® ATA hard drives.</A>
2.) Buy a second IDE cable, and jumper both devices as a Master, one to each cable. See if this solves the BIOS issue.
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