Rob Blomquist wrote:
> The box is running RH 7.1, so you can see that its been up for awhile.
> The drives on the box are an 850 Mb drive, Make and Model Unknown, a Maxtor 15
> Gb disk, and a CD-ROM.
> The 850 is the bootable disk containing the OS, the other 2 drives are mounted
> to that disk, so the 80 Gb would not have to be booted.
> I am currently uploading Knoppix (why did I ever delete that iso?), and I will
> try running it and see what happens if the BIOS is set to not show the drive.
Any modern Linux will see 850MB, 15GB, & 80GB drives as long as the
cabling and jumpers are correct.
> I did suffer for awhile with the disk not allowing it to show the 15Gb that is
> plugged into the same IDE cable. Its like the 80 Gb gets in the way of the 15
> Gb during the BIOS addressing.
The drive controller on the smaller drives may not be adept at correctly
managing the 80. IOW, don't use one of the smaller drives as a master to
the 80. Make the 80 the secondary master.
> Maybe I should let autotranslation attempt to find and use both disks?
That's what happens when the BIOS is set to NONE for a drive that is
present and properly jumpered and cabled.
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