On November 24, 2002 08:55 am, Daniel P Wheeler wrote:
severe snippage warning! :-)

> 06  Drive C: is 80.0 GB Seagate Barracuda IV ST380021A 7 200 rpm ATA-100
> EIDE drive.
> 07  Drive D: is 15.3 GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 91536U6 7 200 rpm EIDE
> ATA-66 drive.
> 08  Drive E: is a Panasonic SR-8584 EIDE 6X DVD-ROM drive.

>>>>>> 09  The hard-disk drives are configured as "cable select".

> 10    Motherboard: Asus P3B-F (440BX) with ATA-33 EIDE controller.
> 11    MODEM: 3Com US Robotics Professional Message Modem (external).

I'm sure you can see where I isolated a certain line above? There's a reason 
for that and for the difficulty you're having with this machine:

Cable Select SUCKS and won't ever work properly in my experience. Pick a 
master and slave drive for each channel and run the auto detect or feed the 
BIOS the *correct information for each drive* and this problem will go away.

Just to re-iterate:

_cable select is crap and likely to cause grief on disks where GNU/Linux is 
being installed._

Regards and good luck.
-- 
Charlie
Edmonton,AB,Canada
Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org
Men still remember the first kiss after women have forgotten the last.


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