If you're going to use 2 of those drives at the same time put them on seperate ide cables. A hard drive and cd berner will perform better if on seperate cables. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@xxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 4:10 PM Subject: Re: curious > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
