re ide hds volker voecking voecking informatik tu muenchen de wrote hello i have problems combining two ide hard disks seagate st a and quantum lps a as single hard disk both are working fine but connecting them together to my controller doesn t work my questions are has anybody out there ever been succesful using such hard disks together and if so what jumper settings and bios settting did he she use is it possible that my controller is the reason for my troubles the only thing i know about it is that it is an ide harddisk controller how many harddisks can such a controller control in my case only one thanks in advance volker ide drives have jumpers on them to indicate if it is a master or a slave if it is a master then a second jumper indicates if a slave is present these must be set correctly according to each drive s manufacturers spec ification the cmos setup is almost positively not the problem it is probably not the controller ide controllers all support exactly two drives maximum check those jumpers gordon lang
