Did you make sure that the cable to the hard drive was an 80-wire udma-66 cable? Compared to the cdrom cable the wires are finer. UDMA-66 cables are also more springy and less flexible than standard ones. Even modern burners run at a maximum of udma/33 which doesn't require special cables. Hard drives on the other hand can run at udma/66 or uata/100 and failure to use an 80-wire cable with a stupid o/s which fails to disable udma can and usually does result in data corruption. The operating system in q question comes from Redmond :-) Linux shuts down dma if it sees 3 crc errors. Win 2k and XP are supposed to do this too but sometimes it doesn't happen. Regards, Kerry. On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:56:37PM -0500, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi. You might want to slave the Cdrom to the hard drive. I haven't actually built a machine as of yet, but hope this helps. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Victor Tsaran <tsar at sylaba.poznan.pl> > To: Speakup List <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 7:26 PM > Subject: Strange things with my hard drive > > > > Hell, listers! > > I know some of you, especially Kerry, are big hardware specialists. Hope you > > will be able to advise something for me this time as well. > > I am putting together a new machine. Whenever I connect the hard drive to > > the IDE0 and CDROM to IDE1, both on master, I get "hard disk failed...", but > > CDROM is found. However, if I connect hard drive to IDE1 and CDROM to IDE0, > > both to master, then both are recognized fine. Why is this hapenning? I > > tried these combinations several times, and the same result comes out. > > Can you suggest something? > > Victor > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Kerry Hoath: kerry at gotss.net kerry at gotss.eu.org or kerry at gotss.spice.net.au
