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**af3** · 06-24-2008, 08:40 AM

You MAY have to change the jumper settings from "MASTER" to "SLAVE" on the hard drive from the i286 PC, but if it is set to "CMOS SELECT" it should be able to automatically assume the role of master hard disk.

In some cases both drives will fight to be the master resulting in a computer that will not boot without intevention. In other cases, the newly introduced hard disk will boot, but you should still be able to see the other hard drive in the operating system and be able to do a file transfer.

I miss MS-DOS.

06-24-2008, 08:40 AM	#5 (permalink)
af3 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: USA Posts: 1,173 OS: XP32, the gaming OS. My System	Re: file xfr from DOS AT to W98 via null modem You MAY have to change the jumper settings from "MASTER" to "SLAVE" on the hard drive from the i286 PC, but if it is set to "CMOS SELECT" it should be able to automatically assume the role of master hard disk. In some cases both drives will fight to be the master resulting in a computer that will not boot without intevention. In other cases, the newly introduced hard disk will boot, but you should still be able to see the other hard drive in the operating system and be able to do a file transfer. I miss MS-DOS.