On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Andy Gayton wrote:
> I'm running stable woody 3.0r2.
>
> I originally installed the machine with 2 hard drives on the primary ide controller
> and a cd drive as master on the secondary controller. I installed off cd and
> everything came up fine.
>
> I've now tried to add a third hard drive onto the secondary ide controller. I think
> I got the master/slave settings conflicting when I first tried to bring the system
> up - I didn't have a monitor on the box when bringing it up the first couple times.
> The box came up ok and the 2 drives on the primary controller were all good, but
> nothing from the secondary controller. I put a monitor on to see what was going on,
> the bios was detecting everything ok, but I still couldn't see anything from inside
> of linux for the secondary controller. The bios was displaying this message:
try to put your 3rd (new ) hd on as /dev/hdb.... if it works.. your drive
is good
try to use your 2nd cable as the cablef or /dev/hda and /dev/hdb
-- and last chance...
- you cannot mix ata33 devices ( cdrom ) w/ ata66/ata100/ata133
drives -- the slow cdrom will slow the disk down ...
and the fast disk will amke the cdrom look invisible and
they will confuse each other to the controller
if that's a cdrw vs cdrom, you will need to do more boot/kernel fiddling
with scsi-emulation and not just 'cdrom' issue
c ya
alvin
> Any advice on how I can get linux to see the cdrom again would be greatly
> appreciated!
>
> Andy.
>
>
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