oops. It is a Western Digital, bought at comp show...
Jay
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----- Original Message -----
From: Paul
To: Jaybone
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] had drive woes
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Jaybone wrote:
>Here is my problemo. I have a Compaq 2266 desktop. I have a 4 gig hard
>drive and a CDROM attached to it (obviously). I purchased a 18 gig drive
to
>add on to it. Now the problem is, Compaq's support is basically a bunch
of
>blubbering idiots (Compaq, please don't sue me for slander!). I am
having a
>hell of a time trying to find the correct jumper settings for my
>pre-installed drive. Can anybody maybe help me out or lead me to a good
>starting point to find this out? I know this is a hard question to
answer
>given the situation. The hard drive is the master and the CDROM is
slave.
>What should my second hard drive jumpers be at, and then what do I have
to
>do to the other IDE drives? whew!!
A bit of info on the brand of the new HD would help, but usually you can
hook up the new HD to the second IDE bus, and configure it as
single/master. Usually that setting is labeled M/S.
Good luck
Paul
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