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Author: Dave Plowman (News)Dave Plowman (News) Date: May 9, 2008 08:40
In article <0rl824h4aeis543jpchst754qrqroa14rc@ 4ax.com>,
Mark getlotsofspamthankstoplus.net> wrote:>>One other thing I found - not being well up on cable select, or even
>>reading the instructions on the HD - I'd set it to master but had
>>plugged in into the slave connector of the cable. So the BIOS reported
>>no master but slave only. I'd also set the two CD writers to master and
>>slave on the other IDE bus.
> If you have set the jumper to master then it is irrelevant which
> connector you use.
The BIOS reported it as master not present, but slave only. I was hoping
correcting this might speed up the damn thing.;-) But it's totally fooked
at the moment anyway. I'll look at it again this evening.
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