At 12:21 AM 9/6/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello all!
>
> Haven't been near a computer for a couple of months, unless you count
>a VT 420 Terminal/dust collector.
>
>After catching up on my personal mails under WinblowNT, and lurking to
>make sure I am up to the speed I was at.
> When I last was at my desk regularly, I had just finished up re
>installing RedHat 5.1 off of a CD. However I one CD drive, and 2
>computers, so jump the cable.
>
> My problem is i this under linux during boot time.
>
><snip>
>Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096k size
>ide0: buggy cmd640b interface on PCI (type1), config=0x1e
>ide1: not serialized, secondary interface not responding
>....
>....
><snip>
>Partition check:
>hda media changed
>attempt to access beyond end of device
>03:01: rw=0, want=1, limit=0
>EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
>attempt to access beyond end of device
>03:01: rw=0, want=1, limit=0
>FAT bread failed
>Kernal panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:01
>
>
> My guess is the cable got reversed, ( pin 1 = pin 60). But I tried
>that, and got nada. Only other thing that comes to mind is I use 2
>cables for HD and CD. 1 is a single serial, the other a double. If they
>were switched, does it make a difference which position is used on the
>double cable?
>
>Any other clues?
>
>TIA I know this is non linux specific, but i am desperate. I miss having
>everything at my fingertips, and not having to hunt through "My
>Computer" for everything.
>
Hello Peter:
Would you please explain what you mean by "jump the cable"? If you mean
you left the CD-ROM in one box and connected the data cable from the CD-ROM
to another computer, you "COULD" cause damage to either or both systems.
The problem here is that different power (voltage) levels may be present.
The ground potential on the two systems may be different by as much as 20+
volts, a sure way to fry a system. This much difference is unusual but
possible. Normally there will only be a small difference. ALWAYS connect
the data and power cables to the same system.
I know it's a lot more work to remove the drive from one box and place it
in another, been there, done that! Why not get a used lower speed CD-ROM
if you're only going to use it for loading programs? Speed is not
essential for that purpose and drives are available many places very
inexpensively.
Good luck,
Tom
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Tom Taylor Sr. Development Technician
Telemedic Systems, Inc. 253.529.0526
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