Sounds to me like you need to go back and recheck your jumper settings in respect to both your hd question and to the cd drives. Greg On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 05:17:01PM -0500, Kyrath. (AKA Rob) wrote: > Hi, I've finally have obtained everything I need to install slackware 9.1, at least I think so. > However, I'm curious as to why my harddrive is being assigned hdb instead of hda. > In addition, linux, and windows for that matter, are unable to detect my HP cd-rw drive if the Matshita dvd drive is connected. Does anyone have any idea > of why the Matshita and HP won't get along on the same ide cable? I suppose that I could connect one the cd drives with the harddrive, but that would > require purchasing a new cable. The one that connects the harddrive is too short to reach the cd drives. > -- Rob > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org