I just bought a new XP system. I added a CD-RW drive to it (Memorex). The CD-RW is jumpered to master and the CD-ROM is jumpered to slave, both drives are connected to the secondary IDE ribbon.
The CD-ROM was moved from the ‘0’ connection to the ‘1’ connection and the CD-RW is in the ‘0’ spot (end of ribbon).
When the system was booted up the CD-ROM still had it’s original drive leter assignment ‘D’ yet is in the ‘1’ connector. Not what I expected!!
I have performed this on 98 SE systems and the ‘0’ connection has always been assigned the ‘D’ assignment (on single partian drives), and the ‘1’ connection the next drive letter assignment.
Is this a XP OS function or is it a bios related issue. It is not effecting drive function at all, and I can live with it. I was just curious.
What libary materials should I buy to better understand the XP operating system. I have the XP Home version and the ‘Help’ files seem well ‘dumbed down’. I would like to have more detailed information about XP system.
Thanks in advance.
