Sorry, probably I have little idea about this but I had a similar problem and I would like to say something about:
A) I ever thought that hard-drives should be connected in the way to be recognized before cdroms/dvd drives; have you tried to conect your harddrives to be hda and hdb? B) having two cdrom/cdrwriter conected in a computer, mandrake 8.2 wouldn't recognized any of them when I have attached in the second IDE as master the cdrom and as slave the cdwriter; just changing the cdrom to slave and the cdwriter to master, both were recognized and now are runing like a charm. Perhaps you can try those changes and use not only the cable selection, but the jumper on every drive to switch between slave and master. Test it, it worth. -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia España (Spain)
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