i re ordered the drives a bit, put both harddrives on teh same channel, so it works now. until i need to add another drive, maybe i'll buy one of those sick-ass cheap dell servers for 299$ :)
Jeff. On 5/31/05, Ted Spradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2005 16:53:16 -0400 > Jeff MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When I boot, my 200 gig drive on the secondary IDE channel is > > detected, but when I install to harddrive [primary master] and reboot, > > it dissapears. > > Just a wild guess: check and recheck the Master/Slave/Cable Select > jumpers on *all* the IDE devices. If that finds nothing wrong, maybe > you should try switching the disk drives and CD drives among the master > and slave positions on the two IDE channels. I remember stories from > years ago about different brands of disk drives not playing nicely > together. Good luck. > > > -- > Ted Spradley > Proud member of the reality-based community. > -- > FreeSBIE mailing list (http://www.freesbie.org) > -- Jeff MacDonald http://www.halifaxbudolife.ca -- FreeSBIE mailing list (http://www.freesbie.org)
