Arranging HDD's/CD's on IDE

seamus · 29-03-2003 11:11am #1

Right. Got a new machine last night \o/

Came with a 40gig HDD, and a DVD/CD-RW combo.

I want to add a 20gig HDD (Linux) and a CD-ROM (for music).

Initial test last night worked out badly, and I was too tired to think.

Basically, putting the two HDD's on IDE-0 would give mixed results. With both on cable select, the Bootloader would tell me that a boot record was found on IDE-1 (

there were no cds loaded) and then would not boot anything.

With the 40gig as Master and the 20gig as slave, neither were detected

I'll probably put a HDD and a CD on each IDE with the HDDs as Master (as worked before), but can anyone tell me why it does this? Tis quite annoying.

KdjaCL · 29-03-2003 11:15am

Main HD Master on 1
Cd rom slave on 1

CDRW Master on 2
Linux as Slave on 2

Windows and your CDR will function better as masters.
Dunno much about Linux but assume it will function fine as a slave.

kdjac

SouperComputer · 29-03-2003 2:27pm

dont wanna get in an IDE config debate, but a BIOS update if applicible might be a help too

Arranging HDD's/CD's on IDE

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