luth-astro{at}earthlink.net wrote:
 
> At that point RAID came up, listed the drive and let me select it.  At
> last, it sees the drive.  It rebooted and started post again, at which
> point it once again got the "Press any key to reboot" prompt.  I put a
> new Maxtor in - same thing.
 
> "It seems that every time I accidentally put two devices set Master in a
> computer I get the one I don't want. "
 
> I put in a known good WD with windows on it.  It booted.

It was already used, so is known to contain MBR code.
 
> I don't know.  Neither the BIOS will accept either of these Maxtors, yet
> the old one was the only drive on that machine for a long time.  And ...
> as I said, it boots eCS just fine on my regular machine.  It just
> doesn't make sense to me.

Of all your posts here and on the DFSee list, I can't remember ever
seeing anything describing anything you did to cause the MBR to contain
anything useful on either of your two previously empty disks. New disks
have no MBR. "Press any key to reboot" is the precise response expected
from a disk with no MBR code and a BIOS with no ROM BASIC. It happened
to me most recently less than a week ago. It's a very easy thing to
forget.
-- 
"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities -- his
eternal power and divine nature -- have been clearly seen, being
understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."
                                                Romans 1:20 NIV

 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409

Felix Miata  ***  http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/



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