Hi Tom, No, I haven' ttried these CD's on anohter system - Good thought. I'll be sure to try that before I pack this thing up and send 'er back!
Diane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Brinkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 6:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] COMPLETE Newbie - need help installing Mandrake 9.0 > On Thursday March 6 2003 12:09 pm, Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: > > Hi Simon - My HDD is Primary master, I have a Cd-ROM drive set as > > Secondary master, and a CD-RW set as Secondary Slave. Both CD's > > are on "Auto". > > > > Diane > > Di, are you sure the drive jumpers are set as such. Many Windoze > computers are delivered with drives, specially CD drives set to > "Cable select". A setting only Bill Gates understands ;) > > According to your statement, your cdrom should be hdc with the > jumper set to master, and your cd-rw is hdd with the jumper set to > slave. Altho not always absolutely neccessary, hdc should be on the > last connector on the second channel (ide1) ribbon cable, and the > slave, hdd should be on the middle connector. > > Have you tried any of your bootable CD's in other systems to see if > they are in fact, bootable? > -- > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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