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Thread ID: 21130 2002-06-18 10:43:00 IBM and Quantum hdd Guest (0) Press F1
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55043 2002-06-18 10:43:00 I have an IBM 20GB hard drive in my machine which works perfectly. Recently I tried to install an old Quantum hard drive of only 127MB. The IBM was at the end of the cable, the Quantum on the second grey connection. The IBM I set to master with slave present on the jumpers, but the quantum which had no apparent space for jumpers since it had only 3 pins where I thought they should be, I just left as is. I'd read that quantum drives needed no settings in slave position anyway. However, when I booted, the machine booted the quantum and unfortunately Windows 3.1. The larger IBM disk which contains Windows ME was not even recognised by the bios, which just listed the quantum drive set as master. I've been into the bios and tried to change its settings, but it just won't recognise the ibm drive. My second IDE cable is used by a CD-RW and CD-ROM, both of which work fine. The computer is only about 1.5 years old, and as i said, without the quantum drive present, the ibm works fine. I've tried a number of different jumper settings on the ibm, and i've never needed to use drive overlay software. Can anyone help? Guest (0)
55044 2002-06-20 09:49:00 There must be some jumpers for the Quantum to set it to slave. mikebartnz (21)
55045 2002-06-20 09:53:00 My experience with an early (105Mb) drive was similar, could not make it share for love nor money (and yes, I tried both ways..)

Possibly the controller architecture simply does not support the notion.
godfather (25)
55046 2002-06-20 10:35:00 I have can old quantum drive--the jumper pins are underneath--jumper j20. Instructions for setting are on top. dum dugie (432)
55047 2002-06-20 12:49:00 There was a lot of incompatibility between different brands of IDE drives in the days up to about 500MB. Often one brand would not tolerate another on the same cable. You could try removing your CD devices off the secondary IDE and putting the Quantum on its own cable to experiment with settings to try and get it to behave as a slave. wuppo (41)
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