Kerry - Many thanks. That is very helpful. We will give it another shot later this evening. Chuck On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote: > did you connect both drives to the one ide cable? > If so they are probably both master on the one cable > and it is even money which the bios/os will find and won't find. > If the second drive is on the second cable with the cdrom; > then again you probably have the cdrom as master (hdc you did say) and the maxtor > as master as well. Change t he cdrom to slave. this is often done > by moving the jumper as follows: > With the ide connector of the cdrom facing you working from right to left you > have: > 4-pin power connector, 40-pin ide connector master/slave jumpers mode jumpers red-book > audio conector 4-pin. > The master/slave jumper usually has 6 pins or mone in a row of 2 > excuse the poor ascii art but like this: > *** > *** > > The jumper closes 2 pins and sits straight up and down. settings are > given from the *right* > right-most pins: drive is slave. > middle pins: drive is master > Left hand set of pins: drive is set to cable select. > In summary from the right: master, slave cable select. > This is often written on the drive as MA SL CS from the right or > CS SL MA fromt heleft above or below the jumper block. > Put the cdrom as slave and connect the maxtor as master to the secondary controller. > > Hope t hishelps. > > Regards, Kerry. > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 03:16:22PM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > I hope someone may have an explanation or a suggestion for this > > one: > > > > My friend has a Gateway machine with Windows 98 on a 12 GB disk > > which works fine. She wants to move on up to Linux, and purchased > > a second HD, a Maxtor 40 GB disk. She knows even less about > > hardware than I do, and together we proceeded to just put the > > disk in the machine and cable it up, without even looking at its > > jumpers. > > > > The machine now still boots fine into Windows, and Windows can > > see the second drive okay. However, Linux cannot see either the > > old drive or the new one. She is going to install Slackware 8.0 > > on her second disk, but when the installation boot disk and root > > disk are run, and we have the login invitation as root, neither > > fdisk nor cfdisk can 'open' any of the four HD devices, not even > > /dev/hda. > > > > Reviewing the boot messages for the ramdisk installation system, > > there is no mention of any HD either. It does find her CD drive > > on /dev/hdc, but no other /dev/hdx devices are found. > > > > Anybody have any idea where to look for this problem? > > > > Thanks - Chuck > > > > *<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>* > > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > > The Moon is Waxing Crescent (24% of Full) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > *<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>* Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh The Moon is Waxing Crescent (24% of Full)
