Anne Wilson wrote:
Trouble is, it doesn't work, and hasn't done since these appeared in lilo
that was a part i was not sure about. if lilo.conf had been working. this puts a whole different light on subject.
Since it was not there from the start, I am beginning to wonder if something I did when trying to understand the multipart lilo booting has caused this, and upset things.
are you saying that you had both drives on ata100 controller and it was working. now it has diff layout? it would have to be something you have brought about.
this has me wondering just what you at a loss about.
Sorry - it's just a gut feeling that something is wrong here - and my guts are usually to be trusted <g>
you know your gut better than i do. :)
why is it odd for a mainboard to have 2 ata controllers?
Unusual, would have been more precise than odd. Large drives were, of course, not common or cheap when this mobo came out. I don't see many people bothering with 6 hdds + 2 cds at today's sizes, without a raid mobo.
i will accept unusual.
only other way is to add an ide controller card.
Something is not quite right, here, g. I'm pretty sure that if I wiped the disk and started afresh this would not appear, but I still wouldn't know what had caused it.
before you wipe drive and reinstall, which may not cure problem, what about moving slow drive to ata66 controller. as in move drive to 'primary master'. you could even move both drives to ata66. ata100 will not give full ability, but you would at least have a diff light on things.
that is, if it works, then something is wrong with ata100 controller, or you have a prob with lilo.conf.
if you do try move, be sure to have a boot disk and change fstab before you shut down and move drives.
peace out.
tc,hago.
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