From: Ellen K. 

You are so sweet.   :)

Yes, I'm gonna try it.   :)

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:40:37 +0200, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote in message :

>> I recognize the "master" and "slave" thing,
have seen that many
>> times (not from inside the box though!), this box (that I'm on
>> right now I mean) has two hard drives which are the masters
>> and two CD's (one read-only, one read-write) which are the
>> slaves... Are you saying that no longer applies, there is no more
>> master/slave thing?
>
>There is, but there is also a "cable select" option. It's
usually in the
>same jumper row, and that one means that the device (hd) will determine
>wether it is a master or a slave depending on where it is in the cable.
>There can be two devices in one cable, and if both (or one; the other can be
>set to master/slave) are set as "cable select", they'll
figure out which one
>all by themselves.
>
>
>> If there are ONLY TWO unattached cables in the box and I have
>> to plug both of them into the drive to do this, ok, I can probably
>> manage.
>
>You can, and think about the warm fuzzy feeling of success you'll get out of
>it. And you get to wear a "Hardware person" hat for at least
a month ;-)
>
>
>> If I have to KNOW anything, it's a different story.    :(
>
>The drives won't break if you plug them in the wrong cables or have the
>jumpers wrong (unless you use brutal force to drive a power cable to a data
>slot ), so don't worry about it. What will happen if the
cables are wrong
>is that the system either won't boot (hangs in the BIOS screen with an error
>message), or it will boot from the wrong disk (if you have two bootable
>devices).
>
>Go for it.
>
>
>Antti Kurenniemi
>

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