Wth CS jumped, most motherboardslook,for a while,for a second drive. If the drive has pins to be jumped for SINGLE, then MASTER will also look for a second drive. On my desktop it's about a 10 second difference.
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I'd suggest just setting the HDD parameters by hand
I find this to make a HUGE difference. Becasue (as said) the BIOS won't look for a hard drive, it'll just assume it has what you tell it it as. A word of caution though. Manual seting of HD parameters must be done correctly, you won't damage anything but you can get some funny results... like data writting over data. And DON'T FORGET you set it like this when you're scratching you're head for hours after you put in a second or a new HDD.
I added a second hardrive to a friends Dell and it took me about an hour to realize it. When I AUTO detect the HDD the BIOS displays info just like it was entered by hand, so I overlooked it about 37 times.
