ah ok I didn't realize you needed special cables for cable sellect. oh well, we live and learn. On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote: > Cabel select requires special cables > and you just can't set everything to cable select and expect everything to work all the time. > Many a dodgey techniton has done this and learnt the error of their ways. > Cable select uses a signal on the cable and it depends which port the drive is pougged into as to whether it is > master or slave. > > Regards, Kerry. > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:33:47PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > ok chuck first and foremost you must once you've put a new drive in the > > machine, always check the bios to ensure that all drives are being > > detected. > > a good way to ensure that your drives are always seen is to set them all > > to auto detect and possibly move the jumper to cable sellect. > > the bios if it's recent enough should just pick up the fact that there's > > a drive there and assign it according to it's ide channel. > > hth > > On Fri, 18 > > Jan 2002, 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 > > > > > > > -- > > Shaun Oliver > > > > Marriage is a three ring circus: > > engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. > > -- Roger Price > > > > Email: shauno at goanna.net.au > > Icq: 76958435 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- Shaun Oliver Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Roger Price Email: shauno at goanna.net.au Icq: 76958435
