How to connect four edi devices?

[Josef Lowder]

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On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:46, Bryan O'Neal wrote
> In your bios, did you set the IDE devices or are they set to auto
> detect?  What your bios is reporting looks like a standard manufactures
> setting.  Try setting all four devices to auto detect.

I've tried dozens of combinations, including 'auto'
but nothing I have tried will get bios to see *anything* 
on the second ide channel.  No HD, no CD, nothing. 

One might conclude that the second ide channel on the mother board
is defective ... except I am able to read the contents of anything 
connected on that second channel after booting up. 

So, I wonder if the bios might be defective? 

Very strange.