Hello, In class this morning I tried the RC of GRML 1.0. However when I typed grml speakup_synth=dectlk my synth failed to speak. All cables were connected correctly. Thanks David Harvey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <compgeek13@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 4:23 PM Subject: Re: three hds? is this possible? > got it. It works awesome now, hdc now mounted in /personal/media/music, > with > all my music in the root which is about 9+gb. Took quite a load off of the > /hdb drive. > Thanks, > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Doug Sutherland" <doug at proficio.ca> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 7:17 PM > Subject: Re: three hds? is this possible? > > >> In the BIOS settings, there should be four settings, one master and >> one slave for each controller. If your BIOS allows for an AUTO >> setting try that and it should auto-detect the drives. On most of the >> older BIOS there was an auto detect function you could invoke >> by pressing a key like F8 or similar and it would detect the drives >> and set the BIOS properly, newer BIOS can auto-detect at boot >> time. If you know which slave slot is for CD and if there is a CD >> setting in the BIOS, use that setting, and check to make sure the >> CD drive is jumpered as slave. >> >> If drives are not showing up then usually they are either not >> jumpered correctly or the BIOS setting is not correct. There are >> two other possible pains with old BIOS, one is limitation of >> drive size, some older BIOS may not support the full capacity. >> Some drives have a special jumper setting for this which will >> limit the drive size for older BIOS. And in some rare cases >> you need to manually set the capacity, number of cylinders >> and tracks, although its becoming rare that you'd have to do >> that anymore. >> >> The most important thing is making sure the drives are >> jumpered correctly as one master and one slave on each >> cable and making sure the drive is enabled in BIOS, if >> there is an auto setting in BIOS try that, if the drive is >> still not working, the drive will be labeled with info for >> cylinder/track/capacity and you can set them manually. >> Hopefully you will not need to do this. >> >> -- Doug >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > >
