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441	1998-09-27 06:56:00	To: Peter Cook Running to old Hard Drives I have an older computer, a 486 DX 4 100 with 16 MB of ram the mother board I purchased from PC Genreral a MB-4DUVC back in 1995 when I upgraded, its bios is Award Bios V4.50G (rom isa Bios 2c4x6A31) . I also put in a Segate Hard drive that is 428 MB a ATA 2 (?) IDE type. I had to also purchase a new Holtek enhanced Holtek VL - IDE Super I/O card for the new hard drive. the software drivers are version 2.41 ( 4/20/95). All of which windows 95 did away with when I upgraded to Windows 95. I have now tried to go back and add my old Maxtor hard drive (80 MB - 7080 AT ) ATA IDE to the second IDE port with no luck. Current set up that has and is running fine: IDE 1: Primary --Master -- ATA Segate HD --Secondary --ATAPI- CD Rom Creative Labs IDE 2: Primary -- Master -- Maxtor ATA HD Set as above for slave, master etc. I can not get the bios on auto detect to find the IDE 2 , even when I switch the cabels. When I set it manually and run fdisk from a floppy the program can not fdisk the drive on IDE 2 (or on 1 if it is the old Maxtor). Am I missing some jumpers on the card?? or what ? I have tried various combinations and when I just let it go past the boot up I get hard disk drive error or failure messages, 20 and I think 80?. Still no luck on format etc. Any help Appreciated. again, thanks, S. Kopecky s-kopecky@xtra.co.nz	Guest (0)
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