check the jumpers. the hard drive which I assume is on the first ide controler (ide0) should be set to master. The 2 other drives which I assume are on ide1 should be set to slave and master, with one being master and the other being slave. 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 > -- Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.
