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Re: [SLE] Need help on IDE drive and CDROM connections
- From: John <yonaton@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 11:30:07 -0500
- Message-id: <200305051130.15064.yonaton@xxxxxxx>
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On Sunday 04 May 2003 10:34, Terry Eck wrote:
> Dear List Members,
> I have a Gigabyte GA-7DXR motherboard which has 4 IDE interfaces.
> (/dev/hda thru /dev/hdh). I currently have the following IDE devices:
> hda: IBM-DTTA-371010 ATA DISK drive
> hdb: IC35L040AVER07-0 ATA Disk drive
> hdc: DVDROM 10X, ATAPI CE/DVD-ROM drive
> hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> On the motherboard are 4 additional interfaces for drives.
>
> I just purchased a Sony CD-R/RW (CRX220A1) which needs to be installed.
> I am currently running SuSE 7.3 but purchased 8.2 and will do a new
> install after I install the CD-R/RW drive. Now the question. What would
> be the best arrangement for the drives. I plan on keeping the hard
> drives on hda and hdb. I am thinking of putting the CD-R/RW on hdc
> and moving the DVDROM drive to hde. This would make the following
> configuration:
> hda / hdb (IDE0) 2 hard drives
> hdc / hdd (IDE1) CD-R/RW and ZIP drives
> hde / hdf (IDE2) CDROM-DVD and maybe an extra hard drive as slave.
>
> This would allow both CD drives to be masters.
>
> Is there a better setup considering I want to be able to burn CD's
> and maybe copy CD to CD.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions are welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Terry
I don't see anything wrong with it, just remember, if you *do* have
problems, do the easiest checks first...the jumpers on the drives. I've found
that putting the jumpers on all drives on the 'cable select' work best, but
YMMV and you may need to do some experimenting around with them ( I have a
two hdd setup one as primary master, the other primary slave, the DVD-ROM as
secondary master and the CD-RW as secondary slave. I was having one heck of a
time getting things to be recognized correctly just in the BIOS, then I
looked...*again*, and duh...I'd forgot to put the power cord back on the DVD
drive. You guys didn't hear the moan over my stupidity where you are? LOL).
John
- --
A butterfly is: Pretty,soft,harmless...and useless,
just like M$N. My Penguin eats butterflies.
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On Sunday 04 May 2003 10:34, Terry Eck wrote:
> Dear List Members,
> I have a Gigabyte GA-7DXR motherboard which has 4 IDE interfaces.
> (/dev/hda thru /dev/hdh). I currently have the following IDE devices:
> hda: IBM-DTTA-371010 ATA DISK drive
> hdb: IC35L040AVER07-0 ATA Disk drive
> hdc: DVDROM 10X, ATAPI CE/DVD-ROM drive
> hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> On the motherboard are 4 additional interfaces for drives.
>
> I just purchased a Sony CD-R/RW (CRX220A1) which needs to be installed.
> I am currently running SuSE 7.3 but purchased 8.2 and will do a new
> install after I install the CD-R/RW drive. Now the question. What would
> be the best arrangement for the drives. I plan on keeping the hard
> drives on hda and hdb. I am thinking of putting the CD-R/RW on hdc
> and moving the DVDROM drive to hde. This would make the following
> configuration:
> hda / hdb (IDE0) 2 hard drives
> hdc / hdd (IDE1) CD-R/RW and ZIP drives
> hde / hdf (IDE2) CDROM-DVD and maybe an extra hard drive as slave.
>
> This would allow both CD drives to be masters.
>
> Is there a better setup considering I want to be able to burn CD's
> and maybe copy CD to CD.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions are welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Terry
I don't see anything wrong with it, just remember, if you *do* have
problems, do the easiest checks first...the jumpers on the drives. I've found
that putting the jumpers on all drives on the 'cable select' work best, but
YMMV and you may need to do some experimenting around with them ( I have a
two hdd setup one as primary master, the other primary slave, the DVD-ROM as
secondary master and the CD-RW as secondary slave. I was having one heck of a
time getting things to be recognized correctly just in the BIOS, then I
looked...*again*, and duh...I'd forgot to put the power cord back on the DVD
drive. You guys didn't hear the moan over my stupidity where you are? LOL).
John
- --
A butterfly is: Pretty,soft,harmless...and useless,
just like M$N. My Penguin eats butterflies.
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