My system (An AMD Athlon 650, based on a Gigabyte GA-7IXE motherboard) was originally configured with both a primary IDE master and slave and a secondary IDE master and slave. The two drives on the primary channel were Western Digital UDMA 66 hard disks. The first a 6.5 gig and the second a 30 gig. The drives on the second channel were first an Acer 50x cdrom drive and the slave an Iomega ZipCd 650 8x4x32. The primary master hard disk crashed and was removed, system was reconfigured with the30 gig as the primary master. After reconfiguration the system will only recognize the secondary IDE slave about 1/3 of the time. I installed an old 80 meg IBM hard drive as a temporary primary slave to see if it would correct the problem. With amaster and slave on both channels everything works fine. Without a primary slave they system will not recognize the secondary slave most of the time and routinely locks up requiring reboot. Bios and all drivers have been updated. Any Ideas?
