the real harddrive is master and has the boot partition,yes?
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the real harddrive is master and has the boot partition,yes?
Yes exactly.Quote:
Originally Posted by roy_bates
any ideas steve?
edd,what happens when you boot and hold both mouse buttons does the drive show there,are you using 3.9
Bit of an update, I decided to redo it for two reasons. Firstly, having used it for a while, I was finding it difficult to get the CF card in and out while the card was in the top slot, but that was the only one the IDE cable I had would reach to. Also the cable was stretched as far as it would go to reach, which can't have been good for either the cable or the card. So I found a nice long 70cm ATA 33 IDE cable on eBay, which is exactly what I needed :) Because it's an ATA 33 cable it works in reverse, so I have the short length going to the main IDE HD and then the long section going to the CF card, which I have also moved down to the bottom PCI slot. Works like a charm, and is much neater.
While I had it all out I also fitted a 3.1 ROM set I got a while ago but never got around to fitting, and it has solved my cold boot problem too :)
edd, i want to do pretty much what you are doing here, can i ask was this the you got?
http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/ribbon-ide...-33-70cm-dg40t
Yes that looks like it would work, but this is the exact one I got:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/170354405957
Thanks, just ordered a couple of them
Still can't get the IDE HD to boot if a CF isn't inserted, any ideas?