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Bobdog · 12-14-2001, 11:29 AM

Just to close this one out thanks Terrorbyte for your advice.

It appears that my Master was in the middle of the IDE cable and the Slave at the end. Reversing them actually didnt help (I guess the two werent compatable in Master Slave relationship - strange as both were Quantum Fireballs though one was ATA100).

Moving the faster drive to its own IDE cable (and also now using the 80 core ribbon :-) ) and moving the second drive as a slave to my CD/RW on the other IDE channel means all is now happy. No more IDE or ATAPI errors in the event log!.

I do get some other miscellaneous errors in the event log (time outs in certain processes) but theyre not causing any problems so if they do Ill post a fresh thread

Cheers !!

12-14-2001, 11:29 AM	#5
Bobdog Member (7 bit) Join Date: May 1999 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 108	Just to close this one out thanks Terrorbyte for your advice. It appears that my Master was in the middle of the IDE cable and the Slave at the end. Reversing them actually didnt help (I guess the two werent compatable in Master Slave relationship - strange as both were Quantum Fireballs though one was ATA100). Moving the faster drive to its own IDE cable (and also now using the 80 core ribbon :-) ) and moving the second drive as a slave to my CD/RW on the other IDE channel means all is now happy. No more IDE or ATAPI errors in the event log!. I do get some other miscellaneous errors in the event log (time outs in certain processes) but theyre not causing any problems so if they do Ill post a fresh thread Cheers !!