videobruce
Golden Member
I have two bootable IDE drives. One Seagate and the other WD. With the Seagate as master and the WD athe slave, no problem. When I switch jumpers, reversing the two (WD as master), the Bios hangs for over 30 seconds 'detecting drives' and then finally resumes where as it would stop two or three seconds (as usual) detecting the Seagate first.
I had this WD drive in another box (both drives bootable) with no issue.
Foxconn (Winfast) N570SM2AA nForce570 MB (latest bios),
XP Pro sp2 (if that matters),
NO SATA drives (as of now),
I'm using the nForce IDE controller, not the add on 2nd IDE channel.
I tried swapping the connectors on the IDE cable, but no difference. If I have just the WD, it seems to boot ok, though it does seem to take longer durning the 'detect drives' stage.
Ideas??
I had this WD drive in another box (both drives bootable) with no issue.
Foxconn (Winfast) N570SM2AA nForce570 MB (latest bios),
XP Pro sp2 (if that matters),
NO SATA drives (as of now),
I'm using the nForce IDE controller, not the add on 2nd IDE channel.
I tried swapping the connectors on the IDE cable, but no difference. If I have just the WD, it seems to boot ok, though it does seem to take longer durning the 'detect drives' stage.
Ideas??
