Doesn't matter. It will boot to any drive selected as master. A
secondary master will be read if no primary master is present.
'Course, he could also have a non-bootable floppy in the drive.
JR
Franc Zabkar wrote:

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:38:36 -0800, JR North
put finger to keyboard and composed:


According to the jpg you posted, the MBR (master boot record) is
corrupted on the HD.
JR


The POST screen shows "None" for both Master and Slave on the Primary
IDE port. A solitary HD is connected to the Secondary IDE port as
Master. It appears that the OP has disconnected the primary HD for
testing purposes.


googlingaround wrote:


http://members.cox.net/carbuy2004/images/IMG_8239.JPG



- Franc Zabkar


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