[newbie] Hard Disks not Recognised on Asus PB533-v Mainboard

2002-11-24 Thread Jeff Gaines
I have just built a new PC round the Asus PB533-v mobo, it also has a Promise Ultra card installed with 2 x HD's and 1 x DVD-RAM hanging off the card. Mandrake 8.2 recognises all the devices on the Promise card but none of the devices on the in built IDE controller, i.e. /dev/hda is actually my

[newbie] PS/2 Mouse hiding in corner of screen

2002-11-24 Thread Jeff Gaines
I am running Mandrake 8.2 using the Matrox Parhelia Linux drivers and three monitors. I can get into X (using KDE desk top) but my mouse cursor 'hides' in the top right hand corner of the screen. I can remember this happening the last time I installed Linux several years ago but cannot remember

Re: [newbie] Hard Disks not Recognised on Asus PB533-v Mainboard

2002-11-24 Thread Jeff Gaines
and 170, respectfully. Your Promise Ultra IDE card has given you another pair of channels, using at least one other IRQ (or two) and two other I/O addesses. Does this sum it up correctly? T - Original Message - From: Jeff Gaines [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday

Re: [newbie] Hard Disks not Recognised on Asus PB533-v Mainboard

2002-11-24 Thread Jeff Gaines
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 15:55:00 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [very comprehensive reply snipped] Daniel Regards Daniel Many thanks indeed for a very detailed response! It looks like it is a Mandrake problem which is a pity as it's a nice distribution. I think I'll have to look as SUSE,