hi max On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 08:00, Max Waterman wrote: > It seems to work as a slave device, but not as a master. I have tried > many combinations of interfaces/cables/power/etc. just to check basic things: what are your drives' jumper settings? if all your drives are set to "cable select", and the "strange" drive explicitely to "slave", then this could explain the behavior. see [1] for jumper settings on the WD series. > Can I just make it a slave device? How will that effect performance? AFAIK there should be only a problem if you have two drives on the same bus - they block each other. so it should be fine if you just leave it that way... though somebody might have a better explanation for the phenomenon... regards nicola [1]: http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=84&p_created=1005005461 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
