Well, if this is true, then it's Mandrake's confusion over the onboard
UDMA133 controller versus the standard IDE. ("Works fine in Windows!"
*groan*)... so I'll set them to slave and see if Mandrake is just
confused... will try this later since I'm away from that computer right
now...
--Alexander
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 08:27, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote:
> Wait, if your hard drive is hda then it has to be the master on ide1 so
> your cdrom can not be set as master also, you would have to set it as
> slave, your HP could be set master if there is no other hard drive on
> the ide2 bus. Have you tried setting the jumpers on the CD and DVD
> drives to slave? HTH
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alexander Rayborn
> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 7:17 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake
>
>
> Yes, I can boot into Mandrake after installing from FTP, but my CD-ROM
> drives still do not work. I haven't tried any manual nudging (mostly
> because I have no idea what to try).
>
> My drive hookup is as follows:
>
> MBFastrack33 (onboard UltraDMA 133): /dev/hda (works fine, even with
> UDMA mode)
>
> Onboard IDE: DVD-ROM as master
> Onboard IDE2: HP 9100i as master
>
> Anything on the onboard IDE doesn't work...
>
> --Alexander
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nikunj Bansal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 7:12 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: [newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake
> >
> >
> > Are you able to boot into Mandrake normally after the
> > install is completed? I worry because my existing
> > Mandrake installation is also not booting up
> > presumably because it does not seem to recognize the
> > hard disk plugged into the IDE slots on board.
>
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