Master & Slave Fujitsu Drives (sleeping slave)

[Guest_imported]

I have installed a second hard drive on my 300 Cyrix Windows 98 machine. The master is a Fujutsu M1606T 1 Gig and the slave is a Fujitsu M1603T .5 Gig. All
is working well but there is a delay when using a program on the D:drive which is the slave. It seems that the slave drive is not running until you start to type and then it wakes up. The delay is annoying. Did I miss a setting or is it normal for slaves to sleep? Does anyone know if there is a way to make the slave drive run continually thus
eliminating the delayed response?

 

[jangolion]

IF the cd player is a slave on your secondary IDE/udma 66 cable then what do you have set to the master on the secondary cable? if you dont have anything there you should set the cd rom to be the master/single at least this is the first to come to mind but you where a little vague as to what your problem was...... do you mean it doesn't show up in my computer? or it doesnt play until you start typing? JANGOLION A+

 

[edfair]

Should be a jumper to change it. Don't know what the identifier will be on your drive. Did you get a data sheet with the drive? Or try the web for technical specifications.

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[Guest_imported]

Thanks for you comments Jangolion and Edfair;

I will try to clearify some things. There is no problem with the Cd drive. The problem is the second hard drive which is on the same Edi cable as the main drive C:. The slave hard drive D: works fine and shows up in my computer. I have several programs on it that work fine but for example MS Word opens up but when you go to type on a new document there is no action for several seconds then you can hear the drive start to run and the letters just typed appear on the screen. I picked up the drive used however got a spec sheet from Fujutsu's web site and set the jumpers as directed. I hope that explains it better.
Thanks again.

 

[edfair]

As an experiment unplug your master and make the new drive master and see if it spins up there. You might also look at the master and see what jumpers are set on it in the hope that nomenclature remains the same. After that it is time to try different jumpers. Earlier Fujis had a bank of 8 pin sets and there was either no idents or the ident was backwards.
Should be able to have the drive loose, set a jumper, power up for two to three seconds to see if it spins, and power right back down.
If you can get it to spin this way then reinstall as slave and see if it still spins.

Ed Fair
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[Hunter11]

Karl this is one problem with smaller Fujitsu drives that I have come across over the last few years. They do not normally like being on the same IDE cable. Especially if they are not of the same size.

I have found that by using the second IDE cable and having the CD ROM on that cable as well has usually fixed the problem.

Set the second drive to Secondary Master and the CD Rom to slave and the delay should be nearly zero.

Another possible problem could be the size of the swap file that you have. Windows does not remove all the programs from RAM and uses the swap file on either drive (normally "C&quot so if most of your "C" drive is full and you are only running 32Mb of RAM this would cause the same type of problem.

I hope this may shed some light on the problem for you.



Steven Walker
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