> I don't know how to check this on any of my Linux boxes. (Now up to 3!) Tell
> me how and I'll check out all three.
As an aside, you can get this info with cat /proc/interrupts but most
modern PC motherboards seem to be this way. I guess that's the point
I was making. His ide config is just like mine and I've never had any
such problem.
> My CD-RW setup is a little different than yours as it's on SCSI, so can't
> help much there. I'm going to guess that from what I see above, possibly his
> setup is ide0 had two disk drives (hda & hdb) while ide1 has two CD's? (hdc
> & hdd?) Total guess. Can your friend provide more info on the actual
<grin>...lessee...thus far I've had him do:
hda=windows drive, hdb=cd source, hdc=writer, hdd=hard drive target
hda=hard drive target, hdb=cd source
hda=hard drive target, hdb=cdwriter, hdc=cd source
None of these get him past the point where it tells him what the IRQs
are. Truth is, I don't know if it's stopping because of the ide
checks or whatever follows it. It's been a while since I've installed
Linux (heck, it's been 38 days since I've rebooted Linux).
> physical setup? Possibly his bios says what's master and slave on each
> channel?
Yeah...and all that seems correct.
> I will say that you'll want to be very careful about how you choose which
> hdd and which cdrom to make master and slave. Basically, IDE isn't very
> friendly to slave devices. They can get starved for data, especially when
so far we've always kept the hard drives as masters.
> I did install Office 2000 successfully on my bigger Linux box with no
> problems, and without DMA turned on, so I know it can be done... Not much
> help there.
I've had no problems here either but I have installed hdc -> hda.
> Check out hdparm for more information on how to test and set things up.
> Once you do it all by hand a few times, then you can add it to some init.d
doesn't sound like a solution to get an installer functioning since
hdparm doesn't exist on the machine yet. It's really got me
perplexed, especially since I had no problem installing 7.1 on this
same machine, in the same configuration only a month ago.
Cheers --- Larry
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