How to setup for a three drive system

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Hi

How do I setup a PC to run three hard drives. My drives are C: WinXP IBM
Deskstar 41 meg,
Second drive Maxtor 61 meg and the third is 9.1 meg Maxtor. I also have a
Toshiba SD-R5002 DVD drive.
How do I configure the bios and need an idea as to the jumper settings for
this combination of hardware.
I tried various jumpers and bios settings but at bootup only one of the
drives that didn`t have a OS was found.
I removed the second and third ribbons and at least now I have access to my
C drive.

Thanks for the help.
 
If you have 80 wire cable you could set jumpers on CS. C drive should be on
the end of prime cable. I would put DVD on the other cable. Red wire should
be close to the power supply connector. Good lack.

Boba Vancouver
 
B Golash said:
Hi

How do I setup a PC to run three hard drives. My drives are C: WinXP IBM
Deskstar 41 meg,
Second drive Maxtor 61 meg and the third is 9.1 meg Maxtor. I also have a
Toshiba SD-R5002 DVD drive.
How do I configure the bios and need an idea as to the jumper settings for
this combination of hardware.
I tried various jumpers and bios settings but at bootup only one of the
drives that didn`t have a OS was found.
I removed the second and third ribbons and at least now I have access to my
C drive.

Thanks for the help.
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Suggestion:

* HD1. The one that contains the OS. This shold be placed at IDE_0, and be
the master, and thus conected at the end of the prime cable.
* HD2 can be on the same cable, but must be set to slave.

*DVD: Should be set to master, and connected to the end of the second
IDE-cable. Because otherwise you'r machine probably won't be able to boot
form the DVD-drive.
* HD3: can be connected to the same cable, but as a slave.
 
*DVD: Should be set to master, and connected to the end of the second
IDE-cable. Because otherwise you'r machine probably won't be able to boot
form the DVD-drive.
* HD3: can be connected to the same cable, but as a slave.
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A DVD drive doesn't have to be set as master to be bootable.






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