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computer locks up during hard drive install (twice)

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gerald_clark:
Slave is slave. Cable position does not matter.
Any IDE device jumpered as 'Slave' should also have a 'Master' on the same cable.
I have seen masterless slave devices work, but they don't always.

aus9:
thanks Gerald for reminding me.....

According to my eyesight you had

controller 0
master--- quantum fireball hard drive (hda)
slave empty

controller 1
master---ATAPI iHAP422 9 (hdc)
slave ----MEMOREX cd burner (hdd)

It looks like IMHO your jumper on hdc was wrong as no info was being obtained by demeg while it was able to report
ide-cd: hdd: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1860kB Cache

So I am claiming your hdc is to be made master
and as Gerald has suggested a masterless optical drive.....can fail without its master.

So decide which is your fastest burner....jumper that as master and the other as slave.

But if you need to do a lot of copying from drive to drive...keep the fastest best(est) burner as master hdc and move the slave onto the same cable as the hard drive

If you can not see jumper position...try google for that brand...whatever it is
I have seen some that do not need any jumper if its master with no slave
so if all else fails....you know hdd is a slave so move it controller 0 and then maybe hdc will work?

ejames82:
gerald_clark,

"I have seen masterless slave devices work, but they don't always"
i'm glad to hear that, because i'm pretty sure that deck worked for general purpose use.  not for booting or installing an os though.


aus9,

"So I am claiming your hdc is to be made master"
it is now.  the iHAP422 is master.  as i stated before (i should have been more clear) it's working 100% (the whole computer).  i replaced the memorex with an hp that i thought had problems, but was mistaken.  it turns out the hp is fine.  boots and installs from either deck. ;D


thanks for both replies.

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