Sorry for what may seem to be a stupid question but have you checked the jumpers on the drivers? If you have 2 masters on the same buss you eon't be able to boot the machine.
=C= * * Cal Evans * http://www.christianperformer.com * Stay plugged in to your audience! * Michael W. Holdeman said: > I have the disc,trouble is with the drive plugged in I can't even boot a > floppy or CD. If I leave the drive unplugged and boot the WD floppy,then > plug > it in,it finds it and everything is fine according to the SW. > I did noticethat the Maxtor drive says it is ATA133, and the WD is ATA100. > > I think I may have to readjust the partitions on teh maxtor and go with > that > drive alone? > > Mike > > > > On Saturday 26 July 2003 04:02 pm, Andrew Gaffney wrote: >> Michael W. Holdeman wrote: >> > I amtrying toinstall 1.4_rc4 off the install cd,I think I have now >> ruined >> > 3 HD's. >> > The machine is a Gateway 500S. With an intel 865G chipset. Original 1 >> HD >> > 40G Maxtor Fireball 3, I added another WD400BB 40gdrive as slave. When >> > the drive is new it will boot it up fine, I infact installed all of >> 1.4 >> > all the way through the install using hdb1 as a /home onlydrive. >> Install >> > went fine, but upon booting the first time the machine hangs. It will >> not >> > boot again with the WD drive? No matter what I try the WD will not >> allow >> > the machine to boot. I can boot into mynew gentoo system fine as long >> as >> > I leave the WD drive unplugged. So I tried another out of the box. It >> > boots the CD fine and ran fdisk /dev/hdb and partitioned it as hdb1 >> and >> > made an ext3 out of it. I even mounted it and wrote to it using the >> > CDbooted system. As soon as I boot again I'm back to the same problem. >> It >> > will not boot with the WD drive. Anyone have any suggestions?? >> >> My first thought would be a motherboard issue. My 2nd thought would be >> an issue with WD drives. WD has a drive testing program called Data >> LifeGuard. Take a look around on their website >> <http://support.wdc.com/download/> and see if you can find it. Most >> likely, it will be a boot disk you can use to diagnose the drive and see >> if there is any problems with it. I recently had an issue with a very >> similar model WD drive. It would intermittently not get detected by the >> BIOS. Even if I set it manually in the BIOS, the BIOS would not boot >> from it. The odd thing is, if I booted with a Linux CD, the kernel >> detected the drive and was able to use it just fine. This particular >> drive demonstrated this behavior on 2 different motherboards. >> Eventually, the BIOS wouldn't detect it at all, but the kernel still >> could. I ended up mirroring the drive to another 40Gb from a rescue CD, >> and I sent it in for warrantied replacement. > > -- > Michael W. Holdeman > > Why keep payin g for windoze?? > Powered by Gentoo Linux 1.2 www.gentoo.org > Linux Kernel 2.4.22_rc2-gss lowlatency, preemptable > Windows Apps thanks to Win4Lin 5.0 www.netraverse.com > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
