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to: CHARLES GAEFKE
from: GEORGE WORLEY
date: 1998-05-12 23:36:00
subject: Re: 6.4 gig EIDE

GW> I have had the same problem with standard IDE CD-
GW> ROM's.  OS/2 Warp 4.0 
GW> installed just fine with a IDE hard drive place as 
GW> primary master and anoth
 CG>     I am using Fixpack #6 here.  It'll boot fine as 
 CG> long as my IDE CDROM is 
 CG> master.  If it's slave, no go.
 CG>     But I don't think it's an OS/2 thing, because if I 
 CG> have it set as slave, 
 CG> my HDD light is always on.. which usually indicates a problem. :)
This is true but on my FIC PT2006 with a Cyrix 166+ and Mitsumi 8X CD-ROM 
with SP5 installed I had to have the drives continous --- i.e. primary master 
(1 gig WDC),  primary slave (3.1 gig WDC), and Secondary  master (Mitsumi 8X 
CD-ROM).   Before SP5, I had only Warp 4.0 out of the box on because I 
upgraded my Warp Connect 3.0 and was playing around with it.  Under 3.0 I had 
it configured as  the 2 hard drives  on the primary channel and the Mitsumi 
CD-ROM as the slave on the secondary port.  Then I installed SP5 on in the 
machine refused to boot -- it took me several days to figure out why it would 
not boot.  Once I move the CD-ROM to the master on the  secondary port 
machine boot just fine.   Once I installed SP6 I had the problem back again 
but because I had to simular problem with SP5, I knew how to solve -- this 
time only took 5 mins.  Was able to create it with other Mitisumi CD-ROM's 
but didn't try any other motherboard.
George
gworley@brokersys.com
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