On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 11:03:03AM -0700, steve wiebelhaus wrote:
> On the new drive there are four settings: 'master', 'single', 'slave',
> and 'cable select'.

It's a Western Digital, right?  Every modern (less than, oh, two or
three years old) drive has a cable select jumper.  Western Digital is
the only brand I know of that distinguishes between
master-with-slave-present and master-without-slave-present.

No way I'm aware of to get around it, sorry.  You could put your CD-ROM
on your primary IDE channel with the hard drive and use your removable
drives on the secondary channel, but that would degrade the primary
master hard drive performance (at least somewhat, if not a lot).  You
could get an add-in card to use the removable drives and/or the CD-ROM
drive; that would probably cost about $30-40.  Or you could get a
different brand of hard drive to use as the system drive.

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