Burned Controller on Drive

[Train]

Belarc is free and will fit on a floppy.
Everest Home Edition is free and the better program. But is a lot bigger.

[Leurgy]

Yes Belarc is free and fits on a floppy.

Everest Home Edition gives a much more detailed analysis.

As far as booting another machine with that drive its important to remember that when that drive had the OS programmed onto it the OS was customized to the machine it was in inasmuch as all the drivers for the hardware pertain to the original machine. If you then take that drive and put it into a machine with vastly (or even mostly) different hardware the OS has no idea of this and will blindly go about attempting to boot the original machine. I've only seen it work once and as it booted it was furiously adding new hardware and had to be restarted a number of times. The result was two modems, four IDE Controllers, numerous errors and blue screens etc.

Jumper settings.

[Robert M]

Thanks for reply and the jumper settings.
With regard to to the jumper settings, does anyone know what that phrase in the link means? A two jumper option:

"DS with CS for slaves not Supporting DASP"

Would you leave the drive in the default position CS, or, set it to DS for a single drive on a primary string, or remove the jumper when using a straight through cable?

[Leurgy]

Set it as master if its the only drive and put it at the end of the cable. On the first boot go into the bios and auto detect new hard drive, F10, enter.

You might need to try different positions. It ships on CS, but thats in the machine it came out of.

[DrMDJ]

D.A.S.P stands for Drive Active - Slave Present. It is only applicable when the master drive (in a 2 drive, master/slave configuration on a cable) uses/requires DASP as a means to let it know there is a slave. With older (like original ATA-2 or earlier) drives the master drive actually arbitrated things on a given channel. So the master drive had to know (be told) when there was a slave present. This was done via a signal on line 39 of the cable. What those instructions you have are saying is that if you have a master drive that uses DASP but a slave that does not appropriately signal on line 39 then the way to jumper it is to set both the DS and CS jumpers (to compensate and allow things to work properly).

All a non-issue in your case I believe. I would just set both drives to CS (or master/slave)