Posted by Steviebee on May 03, 19101 at 10:55:49:
After your last advice, I decided to go for the one drive - now an IBM IC35L040AVER07-0 40gig ATA100. I've used IBM Disk Manager diskette to install it as Primary Slave (with the original Seagate ST310232A set up as Primary Master so I can transfer 10gigs of files) and it has altered the reported size to 33gigs and applied a Disk Drive Overlay. Problem is, even though the BIOS sees both drives now, the system refuses to boot when both are activated. When I hit Esc the DOS screen shows both CD-Rom drives have been detected, but neither HDD. Resetting to just the original Seagate, everything loads fine. All cables, connectors and jumpers have been checked and rechecked but still nothing. When I get back to the Disk Manager Program in Windows it tells me that I need to change BIOS settings to activate the new drive, but when I do...Lock-up!! I'm going round in ever-decreasing circles, but getting nowhere. Any suggestions?