SOLVED: [gentoo-user] DVD drive not found on new AMD64 system
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.) Winmodems 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. -- Michael Kjörling, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://michael.kjorling.com/ * ASCII Ribbon Campaign: Against HTML Mail, Proprietary Attachments * * No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. -*- SM0YBY * *** Software patents hinder progress - see http://swpat.ffii.org/ *** pgpBq9a9VOjIh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SOLVED: [gentoo-user] DVD drive not found on new AMD64 system
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.) Winmodems 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. -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: SOLVED: [gentoo-user] DVD drive not found on new AMD64 system
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 09:07:35PM +, Michael Kjorling wrote Winmodems 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. tinfoil=tight Each time I hear about Bill Gates pushing a new hardware standard, I get nervous. It seems that Winmodems, Winprinters, USB modems, etc. have one goal... namely to only run on the latest version of Windows. Even if you can get a new computer without Windows, you'll find that linux (or for that matter your old copy of Windows98SE) won't work because the manufacturers do proprietary stuff with their peripherals and they only write drivers for the latest Windows version. /tinfoil Even nVidia, who do provide some proprietary drivers for linux, won't necessarily run on the latest linux kernel. And please don't get me started about mouse and keyboard connectors. It's annoying having to keep a computer 18 inches away from the wall because the serial mouse is connected to a serial-to-PS2 adaptor, which is connected to a PS2-to-USB adaptor. -- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure, and has a lower TCO, than linux. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
