Michael Kjorling wrote:
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.
As far as I've heard, the Linux kernel doesn't work well with cable
select. Don't know why, though. Personally, I've used cable select
before with no problems. Anyway, with Serial ATA here, IDE master/slave
settings and all those SCSI jumpers (ID, termination, power on, SE/LVD,
etc.) should be a thing of the past.
If the BIOS autodetects drives, why would the OS have so much trouble?
My guess is the Linux kernel chooses to bypass the slow BIOS and access
the hardware directly, which is why options such as hdx=stroke work with
older BIOSes.
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Colin
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