On Wednesday 10 July 2002 09:17 pm, Patrick wrote:
Just curious, but have you swapped the drives on the second channel? How about removing one? Be sure to check your jumpers on the drives to see if your fast one is set to master and your slow one to slave on the chain. Usually these drives are default for selection per the cable. They both may be set to master too, thus causing a conflict. I don't think I have seen this problem before though without some jumper being wrong or maybe your cable is screwy? Try another one.
Whatever the problem, it only affects booting and not access to the drive once the boot has started from another source, such as the SuSE installation boot diskettes. I tried disconnecting the slow drive; that had no effect. The faster one is the master, and I rechecked the jumpering to be sure. I'd think that if I had some kind of master/slave confusion, it would show up in the boot log or in some kind of access failure.
I've also tried changing those drive parameters that can be changed in the BIOS. Again, no effect. Both machines where I see this problem have Tyan motherboards, though of different models, and Award BIOS.
Paul
Paul, If you switch the drives, changing the jumpers for master & slave, do
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 22:39, Paul W. Abrahams wrote: they still exhibit the same behavior? Would the 6x not boot and the 58x boot, etc? I am wondering if there is a drive incompatibility or somewhat defective 58x drive? Patrick -- ----------end of line........ --- KMail v1.4.1 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206