Hi all! I am experiencing a very weird problem with my eide stuff. I have a computer with one small (6.4G) hard drive, and one large (80G) drive not reconized by the BIOS. That's fine with Linux because I let the kernel reconize the drive. Then I had a cd-rom and a cd-rw on the secondary controller. Everything worked fine. Unfortunately, I got a newer cd-rom drive. I plugged it: bios started to hang and the eide controller light was always red..... After some reboots, I have found that my computer can boot if: 1) I press control+alt+del (so, instead of rebooting, it gets into the bios). 2) I try to make my eide autodetect. 3) I stop it with another control+alt+del (it cannot reconize my large hard drive). It reboots my computer. 4) it works fine, then. But with no cd-rom or cd-rw. I have tryed everything from the bios, with no result. Do you think that getting an EIDE controller could solve my problem? Praise
On Monday 18 November 2002 05:56 pm, Praise wrote:
Hi all!
I am experiencing a very weird problem with my eide stuff. I have a computer with one small (6.4G) hard drive, and one large (80G) drive not reconized by the BIOS. That's fine with Linux because I let the kernel reconize the drive. Then I had a cd-rom and a cd-rw on the secondary controller. Everything worked fine. Unfortunately, I got a newer cd-rom drive. I plugged it: bios started to hang and the eide controller light was always red..... snip<
Praise
Probably stating the obvious, but is the new CD-ROM jumpered correctly? Tom
Hi, Am Dienstag, 19. November 2002 00:56 schrieb Praise:
Hi all!
I am experiencing a very weird problem with my eide stuff. I have a computer with one small (6.4G) hard drive, and one large (80G) drive not reconized by the BIOS. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I think this is the decisive hint. How old is your BIOS?
That's fine with Linux because I let the kernel reconize the drive. Then I had a cd-rom and a cd-rw on the secondary controller. Everything worked fine. Unfortunately, I got a newer cd-rom drive. I plugged it: bios started to hang and the eide controller light was always red..... After some reboots, I have found that my computer can boot if:
1) I press control+alt+del (so, instead of rebooting, it gets into the bios). 2) I try to make my eide autodetect. 3) I stop it with another control+alt+del (it cannot reconize my large hard drive). It reboots my computer. 4) it works fine, then. But with no cd-rom or cd-rw.
I have tryed everything from the bios, with no result.
R u a finger-artist *SCNR*?
Do you think that getting an EIDE controller could solve my problem?
Not really. If the BIOS doesn't recognizes your hardware, additional hardware could mount the number of probs. Better to run a BIOS update. Here, you'll find addinionat infos, how to proceed: http://www.unicore.com/ CU Guido
participants (3)
-
Guido Schiffer -
Praise -
TRBishop