On Friday 17 January 2003 06:33 pm, Justin Zygmont wrote: > i've had a lot of little things like that happen with diferent drives > in different computers.. > > On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Michael Weber wrote: > > 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 What is your HD strapped for? Master or Slave? It sounds as if 1) it is strapped to be a slave, or 2) it's strapped for cable select and a) your BIOS doesn't recognize cable-select, or b) you have an old 40 wire IDE cable. Cable-select require an 80 wire IDE cable. mw in Raymore, MO -- Registered Linux - 256979 NRA Life ARS: W0TMW -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
