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- Path: sparky!uunet!zeos!jre
- From: jre@zeos.com (Jim Erickson)
- Subject: Re: Maxtor 7120A and Seagate 157A IDE drives working together - help please!
- Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:27:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.162751.26355@zeos.com>
- References: <do-minh-181192154142@je-college-node.net.yale.edu> <1992Nov18.212941.25765@qualcomm.com>
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- In article <1992Nov18.212941.25765@qualcomm.com> gbrand@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Graham Brand) writes:
- >I have a '386 running DOS 5.0 with a 40 MB Seagate 157A. Recently, I
- >bought a Maxtor 7120A, 130MB drive and am trying to get them to work
- >together. I have found that the only way to do this is for the Seagate
- >to be the master and the Maxtor the slave. Can someone explain why the
- >other way around does not work? I would prefer this arrangement
- >(130MB as master -> C: and 40 MB as slave -> D:).
- >
- >Cheers,
- >-Graham Brand
-
- Some IDE drives were manufactured before the IDE interface was
- standardized and do not correctly use the "slave present" signal. This may
- be the reason for your problem.
-
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