On 2005-06-03 14:52 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do *NOT* use "cable select". Yes, "it works with Windoze", but then > so do "Winmodems". Set master/slave properly. You are not the first > person to have run into problems with cable select.
First off: thanks, Walter! Yes, setting master/slave manually did make the smaller disk show up to both the BIOS and Linux. I also tried re-jumpering hdc and hdd, putting the hard disk as master and the DVD drive as slave instead of the other way around. And would you believe it? It solved all the problems at once! The drives seem to show up properly, and now the system will also reboot properly. (It failed - hanged - before the BIOS came to "Detecting IDE drives" when I used Cable Select.) Win"modems" always makes me wonder what other crap might pass for hardware, but that's another tale for another day and one I am sure is told even here frequently enough anyway. -- Michael Kjörling, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://michael.kjorling.com/ * ASCII Ribbon Campaign: Against HTML Mail, Proprietary Attachments * * No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. -*- SM0YBY * *** Software patents hinder progress - see http://swpat.ffii.org/ ***
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