According to Gevaerts Frank: While burning my CPU.
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> On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Stephen Newey wrote:
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> > 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.
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> Are you sure ? I never heard about that being a problem.
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Stephen.
That might be the case on your machine, but it is'nt on mine, linux can
handle that sort of thing quite well. So possably you have an unique problem
there.
More likly its a cheapo IDE controller playing tricks on you.
Linux will even recocnise 4 H/D's placed as hda hdb hbc and hdd when there
is an ide interface card to support 2 irq's, even when some motherboard
bios'es dont have support for more than 2 H/D's. I have such a AMD bios
here, i have even used the same combinaion that you say does not work.
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Regards Richard.
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