Have you tried putting the CD-ROM player on the secondary cable? You can
also try putting a special jumper on your disk (if it has it) meant for
harddisks co-existing with Conner drives. I know seagate and Quantum has
them sometimes.
Good Luck
Rogier Maas
Lelystad, The Netherlands
Sasa Janiska wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> After so many preaching to my friend, finally he allowed me to put
> Linux on one partition on his HD.
>
> Nut, unfortunately, I have a problem trying to install SuSE 6.0.
>
> After some time, I (hopefully) isolated the culprit.
>
> There is problem with Atapi CD-ROM.
>
> When I put boot disk in floppy drive, install routine normally starts,
> recognizes HD as hda and CD-ROM, as
> hdb, but after that machine hangs, blank screen.
>
> When I detached CD-ROM, everything is OK.
>
> We tried all kinds of combinations (master & slave), but without any
> success.
>
> I am aware of the problem from the description in the SuSE manual
> (2.8.5), tried also to put the explicit parameter, but nothing
> happened.
> When I try to run loadlin from HD, program selects EIDE2 kernel.
>
> Does anyone has any suggestion to solve the problem?
>
> Yes, I know, install from HD, but this is not the real solution for a
> long run.
> Sincerely,
> Sasa
>
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> Sasa Janiska
> Zagreb, Croatia
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