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This has to be the maddest thing I've seen, in my short time messing about with computer equipment. I bought a new HDD, a budget Western Digital Caviar 80GB unit. I used Seagate's "SeaTools for DOS" utility to limit its capacity to about 1.9GB. (I need to spend time with other ways of doing this, but for now that's what I did.) Anyway, the drive seems to work fine. Unfortunately, I can't remember whether I paired it up with a slave DVD-ROM unit when I set this all up, or whether I added in a slave DVD-ROM unit afterwards, but to get to the point - the HDD won't work anymore if I remove the slave optical drive from the ribbon cable! I've tried 2 different cables, even 2 mobos, but the HDD simply won't boot up unless I connect the ribbon cable slave connector to an optical drive. Mad! 😖