I have an old P-233 I'm turning into a firewall. I blew a fresh install of RH8 onto the drive, installed everything, and had it running. I then needed to run a hardware diagnostic on an IBM hard drive that had failed in another system. Since this one was not in production, had the cover off and was handy, I unplugged all the IDE devices, plugged in the IBM hard drive and booted from the IBM diag floppy. The machine BIOS was too old to see a 60 Gb drive, so the diag program failed. Anyway, I plugged my CDROM and HD back in and tried to boot. The GRUB loader booted Linux and it began its thing, up until it loaded the IDE drivers. As soon as it touched the hard drive, the system locked hard. I unplugged, reseated and re-checked everything that could be. No go. It reid booting from the install CD, it got to the same place and died. It did the same thing for any boot mode. I unplugged the HD, and I could boot from the CDROM, so that worked fine. I plugged the CDROM into the HD cable, ran fine. I plugged the HD into the CDROM cable, and it booted! I plugged the HD back into the primary cable and the CD back into the secondary cable, and it hangs at the same place. Any idea why this hard drive refuses to be a primary master and run fine as a secondary master? Head-scratchin-in-KC All spam should be directed to my other account: billg@microsoft.com -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
