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Big hard drive problem



hello,
	how many ide channels do you have?  If you have 2 did try putting
the cdrom on the second channel?

Anthony

On Fri, 14 May 1999 pfarrar at learningco.com wrote:

>      Hi,
>      
>      My IDE hard drive is about to ____ the bed.  I've got a 5.2 Gig IDE 
>      drive to replace it with, but there's a problem.  I've got a '94 
>      Gateway P60.  My IDE CDROM wont coexist with the big drive.  If I can 
>      see the HD, I can't find the CDROM.  Most configurations simply freeze 
>      up when trying to boot.
>      
>      Any suggestions?  Someone must have had this problem before me.
>      
>      There are downlaodable BIOS available.  Would these solve my problem?  
>      They seem to be for Win95...  I don't have that.
>      
>      Thanks,
>      Peter
>      
>      PS I'm running Slackware 3.6
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