Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-27 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:06:00 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you wouldn't mind satisfying my curiosity, what does the jumper do? Determines if the drive is master or slave in the BIOS. But perhaps you're thinking of something else. I'm astonished that

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Hans-Werner Hilse schrieb: Hi, On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:06:00 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you wouldn't mind satisfying my curiosity, what does the jumper do? Determines if the drive is master or slave in the BIOS. But perhaps you're thinking of something else.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:20:10 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:38:45 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgot to add: this all started when I made hda into hdb and vice versa by

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-26 Thread maxim wexler
If you wouldn't mind satisfying my curiosity, what does the jumper do? Determines if the drive is master or slave in the BIOS. But perhaps you're thinking of something else. I'm astonished that someone doesn't know that. If you ever put a IDE drive in a PC you would have to know what the

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:06 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Determines if the drive is master or slave in the BIOS. But perhaps you're thinking of something else. I'm astonished that someone doesn't know that. If you ever put a IDE drive in a PC you would have to know what the jumper is

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:38:44 -0500 Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most modern IDE hard drives/motherboards come with cable-select enabled. These days you rarely need to deal with jumpers on a hard drive (which are prone to error). Some bioses also support swapping device priority

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:38 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:06 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Determines if the drive is master or slave in the BIOS. ... Most modern IDE hard drives/motherboards come with cable-select enabled. These days you rarely need to deal with

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-26 Thread Dale
W.Kenworthy wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:38 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:06 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Determines if the drive is master or slave in the BIOS. ... Most modern IDE hard drives/motherboards come with cable-select enabled.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 08:47 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:38 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 15:06 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: Determines if the drive is master or slave in the BIOS. ... Most modern IDE hard drives/motherboards come with

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-26 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:03:27 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have never had cable select work for me - I find it is highly dependant on the specific IDE cable, drive, and bios combination. I _always_ use master / slave jumpers, and don't even bother with cable select. Even if

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag, 25. September 2007, maxim wexler wrote: Forgot to add: this all started when I made hda into hdb and vice versa by changing the jumpers on the two IDE drives in this particular PC and telling the BIOS to boot from the 2nd drive. And updating grub and fstab, of course. have the

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-25 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:38:45 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgot to add: this all started when I made hda into hdb and vice versa by changing the jumpers on the two IDE drives in this particular PC and telling the BIOS to boot from the 2nd drive. And updating grub and

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-25 Thread maxim wexler
--- Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:38:45 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgot to add: this all started when I made hda into hdb and vice versa by changing the jumpers on the two IDE drives in this particular PC and telling the BIOS