On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 16:46, Linda & Ken Bowmer wrote: > Hi, > > I wondered if you could send me a copy of your message 57288, on the > above subject, from Mail Archive. It appears to have been deleted. > > I am installing new hard drive (Samsung 6.4G) and during the set up I > have received this message "General failure on the integrated secondary > IDE controller". The computer is an HP Vectra 525MCx. > > Any help you can offer would be much appreciated. > Hi, Ken. I don't know if anyone will have that message - what date (even roughly) was it?
Meanwhile, let's see if we can help. Is this a stand-alone drive? Or an additional one? I presume it's additional, since you talk of the secondary IDE controller. At what point do you see this message? Immediately on switch-on, or during boot into Mandrake (or other distro)? Does your BIOS see the drive? How is it cabled - Master, Slave or Cable Select? If it's CS - where on the cable is it located? It is an 80-wire cable, is it? CS doesn't work properly on 4-wire cables as far as I know. If it's M/S - have you checked the jumpers? Anything else you can tell us that may have a bearing? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels
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