[pchelpers] Re: Win 98 & Internet Explorer

Good point. Some drives (especially older ones) have jumper settings
that allow the drive to think it is the only one present. These settings
won't work with other devices on the same IDE.

A different jumper setting on the hard drive often fixes it (unless you
have a really fussy one):P

PcCowboy wrote:
> 
>  >But it seems like the HDD doesn't like anything as slave.
> 
> I have two HDDs just like that. If you put anything else on
> the cable the drive messes up. The labels and names starts
> going funny. So for those two drives I have them on a cable
> and port all by themselves. For the CD and CD-Writer I installed
> a IDE controller card.
> 
> Pc
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