Philip Webb wrote:
030914 Greg Meyer wrote:
On Sunday 14 September 2003 11:58 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
Seeming to recall that you have the hpt372 controller on this board,
my experience is that you can only use this for ide hard drives,
not cdroms or other ide devices. Mine is on an IWill xp333-r.
Yes, this is exactly true.
ATAPI drives must be on VIA controller on this board.
both drive cables are connected at the same place as before, ie IDE1 & IDE2,
which are at the side of the mobo next to the memory slots.
as i said earlier, BIOS recognises both drives correctly
& those are the slots which the manual says can accept a CD drive (p 20).
however, i'm not sure re the correspondence of names:
there are IDE1 IDE2 IDE3 IDE4, then HDD0 HDD1 HDD2 HDD3
& in Linux 'hda hdb hdc hdd hde hdf hdg hdh'.;
Linux seems to see HDD0 (the hard drive) as 'hde'.
can anyone offer clarific'n ?
IDE Channel win/dos Linux
ide1 hdd0, hdd1 hda, hdb
ide2 hdd2, hdd3 hdc, hdd
ide3 hdd4, hdd5 hde, hdf
ide4 hdd6, hdd7 hdf, hdg
the problem with booting from CD mb due simply to giving the wrong 'HDDn',
which i will test later tonight. if i can get the CD drive to boot,
i can try to re-install Mdk 9.1 & see if it then understands the new mobo.
doesn't anyone know what the Linux kernel panic message implies?
mt there be a special problem with Mdk 9.1 (the RAMF rescue diskette is ok)?
should i perhaps have to pass some parameter to the kernel at boot?
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