On Saturday 01 January 2005 23:16, Shaul Karl wrote: > On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 07:14:42PM +0200, solomon wrote: > > BTW, this is not a disk problem because I tried swapping the ide1 and > > ide2 cable and that resulted in my 2 disks being recognized but my 2 > > optical drives NOT being recognized. So the problem is definitely with > > ide1 and not ide2 or the various devices attached to either one. > > 1. Another way to avoid, as you call it, the problem is to have the 2 > discs being recognized by the bios and leave the optical ones to be > not recognizable. I could, but that still wouln't solve the problem (maybe a corrupted BIOS??) and I'd have to re-configure all the applications that use the optical discs (burning, CD playing etc) to recognize them as hda and hdb instead of hdc and hdd.
> 2. You might want to disconnect all the discs and attach them one after > the other to see when they will start being not recognized by the > bios. With older hardware there were some jumpers on the discs to > set. All jumpers are properly set. I know this because: 1 - the disks have worked with the jumpers set as they are for at least 2 years (in my previous computer) 2 - everything was working in the new computer for a few weeks until I re-booted > 3. Were all your discs ever been recognized by the bios? I mean, before > the installation, was there any difference? As I already wrote: 1 - if I swap ide1 and ide2, the discs are recognized 2 - everything was working for a few weeks until I re-booted -- Shlomo Solomon http://come.to/shlomo.solomon Sent by KMail 1.7.1 (KDE 3.2.3) on LINUX Mandrake 10.1 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
