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From: ddavis@dgdhome.meaddata.com (Don Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: MS-DOS can't see disk, BSD can
Message-ID: <94080520.09T.14622.ddavis@dgdhome.meaddata.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 1994 20:09:58 EDT
References: <Cu2D5v.GEr@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: ddavis@dgdhome.meaddata.com
Organization: The Dayton Home for the Chronically Strange
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In article <Cu2D5v.GEr@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>,
richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
[ interesting symptoms deleted - bandwidth conserved ]
>The disk is a Maxtor 200Mb IDE disk. Disk 1 is a Rodime 200 Mb IDE.
>Disk 3 is a SCSI disk - it doesn't make any difference whether it's
>connected. The machine is a 386DX EISA, with Fahrenheit VA graphics
>card, Apaptec 1542 SCSI adaptor (+ Toshiba CDROM), and SoundBlaster.
Are both IDE drives jumpered properly as master and slave? If so, you
*might* try reversing them (make the Rodime the slave, and the Maxtor
the master).
Next issue: how do you have them configured in your CMOS? If you are
using the user-definable drive type, it *may* be that you need a BIOS
upgrade -- some older BIOS chips don't support that drive type correctly.
Both IDE drives are 200MB -- if they are both defined the same, you
wouldn't think that'd be the problem.
Good luck!
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