On Apr 10, 2005 11:34 PM, Rony Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... snip ... > I know their speciality but they don't seem to do the job. In my own > system when it was being newly assembled about 2 years ago, my XP oem > would not install and threw up an error. The hdd was given back to the > dealer and the next hdd worked. The dealer reported that the one > returned was also working. I used my system for about a year and then I > had a spare cd rom so I made it the primary slave and the delayed bootup > started. The cable was replaced with an older type and everyhing's fine. > ... snip ...
Aah, in your original post you did not mention you were mixing CDROM (legacy IDE) with newer ATA100/133 devices. It is not a good practice to mix them especially using the newer 80 pin cables. The legacy devices understand the 40 pin bus. It explains why the devices work fine with the 40 pin cable. Put the CDROM on the 2nd IDE channel and leave the HDD alone. BTW, I apply the same thumb rule to SCSI devices - do not put LVD and SE devices on the same channel. -- Arun Khan -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
