Try resetting BIOS to defaults in each area. I assume you have tried the
cable that works on the second port with the same drive on the first port,
right?
Regards, Jim
At 07:44 PM 7/31/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>I've got a secondhand PII/233, based on an LX motherboard with an intel
>chipset, and I've been doing my damnedest to install Redhat 6.0 (the first
>linux CD I came across -- free and I figured I'd upgrade later) but I
>think I must be having hardware trouble: the system won't detect my
>disk(s) on the primary IDE port. I can boot from the ATAPI cdrom, on
>the secondary port, and even install the OS on the disk when it's plugged
>into that port... but it won't boot from the disk. I've tried fooling with
>jumper settings and the BIOS, to no avail and I'm near my wits end. I
>really don't want to spend any more money on this machine, if I can help
>it. I fear that the primary IDE controller may be fried.
>
>Will someone versed in PC hardware please tell me some way to fix this I
>haven't thought of? Or, do any of you have an old but definately
>functional functional mobo that would accept a PII, that you'd sell me
>really cheap?
>
>Sorry if this is off topic, I just don't know whom else to ask.
>
> - max orhai
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