Presumably the BIOS sees it, and it's readable from DOS?
What happens if you physically disconnect the drive, boot, refresh devices, shut down, reconnect, restart and refresh again? What if you try it on the primary controller?
Memory is telling me that there is something that causes this sort of problem - sure it's correctly set up as a master (possibly master no slave which some drives want to be told) if it's the only device on the secondary controller? Proper OSs - DOS and Linux - will see it if it's not, but Windows won't.
Backup devices are useful: a CD writer should be in everyone's PC.
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Date: 2002-03-18 03:46 am (UTC)What happens if you physically disconnect the drive, boot, refresh devices, shut down, reconnect, restart and refresh again? What if you try it on the primary controller?
Memory is telling me that there is something that causes this sort of problem - sure it's correctly set up as a master (possibly master no slave which some drives want to be told) if it's the only device on the secondary controller? Proper OSs - DOS and Linux - will see it if it's not, but Windows won't.
Backup devices are useful: a CD writer should be in everyone's PC.