Carroll Grigsby's message on April 7, 2002 03:17 pm, stated: <snip> Problem: Maxtor wants each of the two hard drives to be set up as the master on separate channels. My concern is that Mandrake will move from hdb to hdc, and the CD-ROM goes from hdc to hdb. Is this going to create problems, or is there a simple way to do this? FWIW, a complete 8.1 reinstall wouldn't be all that big a deal, but if there's a simpler way I'd like to hear about it.
-- cmg _____________________________________________________________________________ Maxtor wants WHAT?!? I have an old (November '99) Maxtor 13 GB in this box and a new Maxtor 60 GB (HDMAATA6006 7200RPM UDMA 133) that I added last weekend when I 'updated' to MDK 8.2 from 8.1. The 60 is primary slave (laziness was the prime factor :-)), the BIOS needed to be flashed in order to have it recognize the new drive during POST even though Mandrake saw and used it. I don't have Windows at all but that should make no difference in any case. Did you use that phony "MaxBlast" utility? I helped a friend install Mandrake on a new 40 GB last weekend and had difficulty with the new drive after he ran that. He also has a 20 GB Maxtor as Primary Master with Windows 98 SE installed, the 40 is slaved with Mandrake occupying most of it other than a 6 GB FAT32 partition at the end for shared resources (MP3s and images mostly). I haven't run MaxBlast at all on my box. I'm not sure what to say since I didn't need to use the fdisk you get with MS operating systems here, but I don't think you need to have the disks on separate channels. All I can think of is the requirement by Windows to be on the Primary Master IDE. I don't know why that would matter with what you are doing. What are you using to move Windows? If it were my system I would probably take the Mandrake disk out of the loop totally until I had finished with Windows. Slave the new drive and use Mirror Image or whatever to transfer then swap the drives back the way you want them. The new one will then be primary master to satisfy that requirement and 'Drake should handle itself. Makes sense maybe? HTH -- Charlie in Edmonton, AB., Canada Mandrake 8.2 registered user 244963 4:50pm up 1 day, 3:52, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.10, 0.13
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