On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Stephen Newey wrote:
> I've installed here at work a couple of times and the installation never
> worked when the CD-ROM was secondary master, and HDD is primary master,
> unless I had a second HDD as primary slave. However, after installation
> it works fine in it's original setup?? I read somewhere that it can be a
> problem.
Might be a Red Hat problem then. I always managed to setup Slackware
correcly from /dev/hdc to /dev/hda, with no /dev/hdb in my system
Frank
>
> Stephen.
>
> > > I'm not sure if this is your answer, but I've had similar problems
> > > before on certain hardware, if the there's a gap in the IDE chain,
> > i.e.
> > > you've got hda as your hard disk and hdc as you CDROM, Linux can
> > > sometimes have trouble accessing it properly. Try taking out the gap
> > > between devices by putting the CD-ROM as hdb, I'm new at this so I'm
> > not
> > > sure if it's the answer or not. And this is posted from Outlook
> > because
> > > I'm from work.
> >
> > Are you sure ? I never heard about that being a problem.
> >
> > Frank
> >
>
