On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 21:12, Donald G Wilson Jr wrote: > Many thanks to all those who offered help on my IDE errors. It ended up > being the IDE cable, as it wasn't the newer type. > > Now I get nice clean boots again. > > I might add this though. > > I installed, formatted etc, this drive in the RH8 install program. This > using the old cable (UDMA 33 Style). When I put the new style cable in > and booted, my initial problems disappeared but boot failed to swapon, > as it could not find hda3. I used the second drive connector on the new > cable and swapon was fine on all consecutive boots. Do the newer IDE > cables have A and B ends like a floppy? Or is it just coincidence? > ----- Some of them have connectors for a master & slave drive, just like the UDMA 33's Craig -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
