[Leaplist] Continuing Install Troubles

[Robin (Bartow FL)]

> 1. Drive jumpers need to be set to Master / Master wo Slave / Slave.
> Had a WD drive that had to be reverted to factory jumper settings before
> it would work, as a single drive on IDE0, though it was recognized in
> the bios! Upon the reboot after the BIOS Setup, it would not be there!
> (MSI K8NGM2-FID Athlon AM2 socket 939 Board).
> 
> It was set as Single Master, but, that wouldn't work, so I had to put
> the dual jumpers back in the factory configuration!

Your BIOS handles a warm boot and a cold boot differently.
In your mainboard manual, look up "Extended System Configuration Data" (ESCD) and/or possible derivative terminology.
There is pro and con to ESCD. One con can be that you have to "manually reset it" in your BIOS when you make a hardware change.
I repeat, "Your BIOS handles a warm boot and a cold boot differently." Your use of "reboot" above does not differentiate.

> NEVER put any optical drive on any IDE cable with any drive
> you want to run faster than ATA33.

This is actually my standard practice. However, I rarely use the two devices on the same channel at the same time. That would delay data to and from the IDE device. Instead I cross over to another channel for the fastest possible system throughput. Providing more efficient use of buffers on both sides of each channel.

/robin