Slave is Main HDD

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Sat Feb 3 15:31:41 EST 2001


There should be a switch or jumper on both drives. Normally, you need to 
switch on to master and the other to slave. Some drives have a setting for 
"olny drive". I have found that on my system one of my older drives would 
never operate as a slave behind another drive. At that time my solution was 
to make that drive a master on the secondary channel.
Once you make the jumper changes on both drives, you must go into your BIOS 
and let the BIOS autodetect the drives.
Remember that Windows98 wants to live on the C: drive. 
Billy SG McCarthy wrote:
> I've got 2 HDD in my computer, running RH6.2 on the
> slave, and Win98 on the master.  For some reason my
> computer refuses to allow the RH drive to be the
> master (despite the fact that it's the newer drive,
> and a new MB).  
>  
> I want to boot RH as my main OS and I'm unsure how to
> deal with this situation.  
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org


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