Oliver Stieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Diskdrake 7.2 (not 7.1 /7.0 they work fine) appears to have a problem
> detecting partitions when my dvd drive is pluged in.
>
> eg
>
> hda = 20gb ibm
> hdb = dvd drive
> hdc = 20gb ibm
> hdd = ide cd-rw
>
> hda will fail to detect (bad magic number in partition table)
>
> when i do
>
> hda = 20gb ibm
> hdb = ide cd-rw
> hdc = 20gb ibm
> hdd = dvd drive
>
> hdc fails to detect correctly
>
> when i do
>
> hda = 20gb ibm
> hdb = ide cd-rw
> hdc = 20gb ibm
>
> all is ok...
>
> all drives are on udma66 leads,
> i also have a hpt470 (aka hpt466) with nothing pluged in as ide2/3
>
> (this pc dosn't have 2 extended partition tables like my other one ;-)
Have you used "Use hard drive optimisations (may cause data corruption)"
at Install time?
If so, try to remove the "autotune" parameter from your boot parameters.
--
Guillaume Cottenceau -- Distribution Developer for MandrakeSoft
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
