2008/9/8, Stephen Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> It's been a long time since I ever used this in production. I recall that
> there had been a scsi hard drive
> in this box, and I had removed the stock IDE hard drive shortly after
> purchasing. When I pulled this out
> of storage in my basement several weeks ago, there wasn't any hard drive in
> it, so I put in a spare 13GB
> IDE drive I had. I guess I plugged it in the wrong socket on the
> motherboard; there are 2 IDE data
> sockets on the motherboard. Make sense ? The other probably is the hda data
> socket. I don't think the
> jumpers were changed.
>
The other IDE socket has probably the CD drive (hdc)? Maybe the spare
drive has been as a slave in its earlier life? In Linux, hda/b are
master/slave on primary ide bus, and hdc/d on secondary.

Risto


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