Hi all. Got quite an interesting problem here. I just recently got an Optiplex GX110L and figured I'd throw in my already Linuxed hdd in there. After doing that, everything worked except the cdrw drive which was from my old machine. This box appears to have an onboard ide controller, and also an onboard floppy controller. So the config is like this: ide, floppy, ide. The RW drive is set to slave, and I presume the hdd is mastered. Haven't checked that though. When I boot the system, the hdd is picked up by the kernel. Also the floppy drive is mapped to /dev/fd0 as expected. However the RW is left unmapped. Could this be a bad IDE connector? I think the only thing left to do here is test a bootable Cd with Debian on it for example to see if it will boot. Does anyone have any other ideas they can throw out, or other variables I should check for? Thanks! May you code in the power of the source, may the kernel, libraries, and utilities be with you, throughout all distributions until the end of the epoch.
