does the bios still have the 60gb hdd in it? make sure the drive is plugged in the same part on the cable set to master/slave as it was and that its correct in the bios. Dennis On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 08:22, 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 > > All spam should be directed to my other account: billg@microsoft.com -- Dennis Gilmore <dennis@dgilmore.net>
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