I do have the cable installed right. My cable is the old style 40 wire
one, but that came with this 17 year old computer. Oddly enough, I did
have the cable backwards on the original drives (Master/Slave), and it
still worked fine. It's probably been that way for years. There is a
jumper setting marked "Cable Select". If that dont work, I guess this
drive can only be used as a master, or it's defective.
Strange enough, since this drive is giving me grief, I grabbed a 160gb
drive, and had it connected and partitioned in minutes. I really did not
think that would work, because I was told that Win98 can not use any
drive larger than 120gb. The partitions add up to 131gb after I
formatted them. So, apparently there is some wasted space, but that
drive works fine.
If I can only make this drive a master, I have a bigger problem. My
floppy drive has died. It's been years since I used it, and it must have
died from no use. This computer cant boot from USB, and dont have a
CDrom drive. So, if I must make a Master HDD, I will have to buy a new
floppy drive first.