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From: ehung@ampex.com (Eric Hung)
Subject: Re: Adding a second IDE drive
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In article <C5r4ur.D0r@ulowell.ulowell.edu> mcook@cs.ulowell.edu (Michael Cook) writes:
>
>I just bought a Western Digital/Caviar 340MB IDE drive and I want to add it to
>my system which already has a WD120 IDE drive.  The controller says it 
>supports 2 hard drives, but when I plug in the cables, do the BIOS setup,
>and try to start the system, it pauses and then I get an invalid drive D:
>error message.  The system boots, but I cannot access the new hard drive.
>
>The new drive works fine as drive C if it's all alone, but I am not able to 
>get both drives working at the same time.
>
>Any help is appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Mike
>

You need to run FDISK.

Eric.
