[Volt-Schwibe]

hmm

it almost sounds to me as if you have the master/slave settings wrong. in your machine, what is running off ide 1 and what is running off ide 2?

in my machine i have:

ide 1 master= wd hard disk drive c:
slave= wd hard disk drive d:

ide 2 master= HP multiread cd burner
slave= lite-on 56x cd-rom

make sure that you dont have two masters on ide 1 and two slaves on ide 2, that would definately cause what you described.
you could try it the way i assemble machines, try the machine with ide 1 set up only, with your hard disk as master, and put something else on the same branch as a slave, then try adding slowly from there. i use this method so that i can see where it screws up. but, are you running 2 cd drives and 1 hard disk, or 2 hard disks?

i wish i could be of more help.
BoB

 

[Volt-Schwibe]

woah

i cant beleive i didnt notice your reply over a month ago. i read that you have a hard disk on ide one. it is working fine i assume. you say that you have a cd drive on ide two, and it works. but when you plug the second drive into ide two it has errors. have you made sure that the jumpers on the back of the drives are set correctly?

the one you want to be first should be jumpered to master.
the one you want to be second should be jumpered to slave.

if this isnt your problem, or if i am too late, let me know.


~BoB~