doug Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 Just called on my young friend Ross to see if we could connect a second HDD to his old Packard Bell http://www.windowsforum.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=13371The spare ribbon cable definitely works together a spare power cable plug on his PC. However I now need help to sort out the jumpers on the back of the drives. The present primary is a Seagate 1.2 GB but I haven't the full details to hand while the spare is a 4.2 GB Quantum Fireball donate by his school from a duff PC. There are no markings on either to say which is the master/slave pins. I both cases the jumper was across the extreme left of the set of 4 pairs with the ribbon cable connection on the left and the power socket on the right. I assumed these were the master settings so I moved the jumper on the spare one set of pins. Not recognized. Tried a few combinations without success. I then disconnected the master, set the jumper on the spare back to its original position and powered up. The spare HDD was then recognized but wouldn't go any further than to say there was a missing or corrupt kernel file. At least this said the power and ribbon cables were working.Help need advice on which pins to short out to get the correct master/slave settings correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq...ble_select.html http://perso.wanadoo.fr/rayp/HD/QUANTUM/guides/fb_a_cr.htmany help there doug ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvw Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 Remove the jumper altogether doug, then try it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted October 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 Perfick. That's exactly what I was looking for. See how it goes tomorrow. Ta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted November 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2004 Thought I'd report that tonight we finally got a result. Had become extremely frustrated so had brought the newer HDD home with me and formatted it on my own PC. Noticed that it was originally formatted as NTFS. Then we went for plan B which was to install it on his PC instead of the original one and install Windows on it then. So went trundling down to his house and tried one last time to install it as a slave. Went into the BIOS setup and saw that in fact the second HDD was disabled but not in words that I noticed when we were first trying. So enabled it and re-booted. Bingo it was recognized and booted up normally. His OS is Win 98 first ed. I then set his paging file to 512 MB fixed on the new drive (4GB) to free up some space on his existing 1 GB drive. Saw that is was 45% utilized so I set it away to defrag. First time in 121 days. Hopefully he is now a happy bunny. He is only using it for games. Any suggestions or should I leave things as they are?PS thanks mark2 for the diags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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