There is no standard pin lay-out on drives. There may be a standard for a particular manufacturer, but not any standard for the industry. Richard If you are going to burn all of your bridges, you better be able to walk on water. ----- Original Message ----- From: <igueths@xxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 6:18 AM Subject: Re: ide problem > Ok ide problem fixed. Turns out that the Cd drive was not in CSEL mode like the > other drive had been before I swapped it out. I was having a sighted person > help me with this, and it didn't occur to me that this could be the problem. > Just for reference, is there any type of standard pin configuration? I.e., > master, slave, CSEL, etc? I would think this is highly unlikely, however when I > want to swap in/out some hardware, I want to be able to do it with nobody > around. > > If one of the Ide devices is not properly jumppered, then you will not be > > able to use the other device on the controller. > > > > Richard > > > > If you are going to burn all of your bridges, you better be able to walk on > > water. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at attbi.com> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 3:44 PM > > Subject: ide problem > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
