dajmo Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 wds "98 SE, I added a 5th hard drive, and it is read and working fine, but when ever I re-boot the drive letters change. The main OS drive and the slave on that ribbon DON't , just the 3 I have on the ATA - 100 controller card. they seem to rotate progressivly. I think I read somewhere that you could only have 4 eide drives on wds"98, does anyone know a way around this?[besides going external]any info would be appreciated, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 they seem to rotate progressivly. Did you enable some option on the controller card to do that? I've never heard of such an option, but... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
os2fan2 Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 It depends on whether the BIOS or Win98 is picking up the fifth drive.You will experience more problems if this drive has primary partitions on it, rather than just secondary ones. For example, suppose you have primary partitions on each drive C, D, E, F, G. The first extended partition is H. But if Windows does not see the fifth drive in time, then it will become G:Were the fifth drive entirely extended partitons, you should not see this problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dajmo Posted October 2, 2006 Author Share Posted October 2, 2006 A IDE controller can hold 2 Drives, The First connector of the Ribbon Cable is for the Master, the Middle Connector for the Slave. Windows 98 should be on the Primary motherboard IDE Controller as Master unless it is broken I guess. Then in the pecking order is the Secondary IDE controller of the Motherboard. Then a PCI IDE Controller has the Number 1 IDE controller, and the number 2 IDE controller, each of course has the same Master, Slave setup as far has the Ribbon Cable. If you watch the Post screen you will see the bios detect each IDE controller in that order as the computer boots. That is probably why the Drive letters where probably changed.I did the final test and am confident that the problem is solved. it didn't seem to matter untill I installed the 5th drive. the ata-100, has 2 ribbons [2.drives ea.]for some reason I needed to put the 2 drives on the ribbon nearest to the rear of the computer. and a single on the middle of the next ribbon[i didn't check another position of this one] thanks for this latest inf, I will keep it on file,,,may come in handy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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