On Saturday 10 January 2004 07:31, E. Hines wrote: > On Friday 09 January 2004 07:30 pm, Peter Simko wrote: > > Nope, hda doesn't show up there either, just the hdb device. This > > is really annoying the hell out of me. I used to run both HDDs > > from an ATA controller card, but I got rid of that and put both > > drives on IDE 0 to simplify my system. That changed hdf to hdb > > without a problem (with appropriate changes to fstab), but > > somehow hde just went 'poof' and disappeared instead of showing > > up again as hda. > > A few things I can think of: > > hda should be jumpered for "Master" and it should be (if I recall > correctly, someone will correct me if I'm wrong) on the end of the > IDE cable. The slave drive should be attached to the center cable > connector. Does your bios show both drives being detected and > identified correctly? (assuming you don't have a crippled bios like > a Gateway or some such). Do you get a message at the first boot > screen (right after memory test) that shows the Master and Slave > drive being identified? > Have you tried moving hdb to ide1, and having hda alone on ide0? > Tried booting with only hda plugged in? Lots of stuff you can do > to determine what the problem is, but it acts like: > > 1. hda has no power plugged into it > 2. hda is jumpered wrong, or in the wrong position on the cable > 3. the IDE cable is bad, not plugged in, or plugged in wrong--red > marker not to pin 1 (not impossible to do with some cable/drive > combos) 4. the hd has gone bad
Above all, I would say make sure that neither drive is jumpered for Cable Select. It causes far more problems than it solves. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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