Jim Darrough wrote:
> Is it possible that the seagate is UDMA and the other is not?
Hi Jim,
yes, the first drive (Samsung) is just a hdd when the BIOS comes up, for the
second it says UDMA, but that wouldn't have made a difference when I tried
installing on it when it was alone in my system (and jumpered as master). Or
would it ?
BTW, thanks for answering so promptly!
> Would that
> make a difference?
>
> Regards, Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hammann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: linux newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thursday, October 08, 1998 5:30 PM
> Subject: can't install on 2nd IDE drive
>
> >Hello, all of you!
> >
> >I got myself quite a problem when I bought a second IDE drive and tried to
> install SuSE
> >
> >Linux 5.3 on it. The first HDD is a Samsung 2G, the second a Seagate
> Medalist 4G. By now,
> >
> >I must have tried everything to get a working system on the second drive:
> jumpered it as
> >
> >slave, tried it with yast, created fs first from the system on the first
> drive and then
> >
> >used yast, tried mounting the partitions on directories of the first system
> and copied
> >
> >everything from my old system in them (got a badly corrupted fs), then
> someone told me
> >
> >there might be a conflict between those two IDE drives, so I unplugged the
> first one
> >
> >and jumpered the Seagate as master, no luck.
> >
> >In every single instance it exited with an error message quite early in the
> installation
> >
> >of files on the new system.
> >
> >What's going on, and what can I do?
> >
> >--
> >
> >See you,
> >
> >Christoph Hammann
> >
> >#########################################################
> ># (-; too freaking busy feigning computer literacy ;-) #
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> >
> >
> >
> >
--
See you,
Christoph Hammann
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