On Friday 21 November 2003 07:18 am, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
I have just upgraded two machines, an Athlon and a Duron, from 8.1 to 9.0, solving a number of problems. Incidentally YOU performed magnificently and managed to solve nVIDIA problems that plaguing me the entire time I was using 8.0/8.1.
For some reason, however, the Duron seems to think that I have hdd in place, although hdd isn't detected during the boot process. I have three HD's on the platform, hda, hdb and hdc. Also, hdc generates bunches of error messages during boot. The installer didn't find hdc during the clean installation, I had to manually add it to fstab.
It sounds as if hdc is having a hardware problem, but why does the system think that there is a hdd? The fourth slot on the interface is the CD which works without any problems.
Comments will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Multivariant and stochastic http://web.jadeinc.com/FoundationChem
Stephen, Try checking your jumper settings on the drives. Usually the best thing to do is set the jumpers Master & Slave, rather than "cable select". A little fuzzy on your setup from your remarks too, do you have 4 drives installed? 3 hard drives and a cdrom or just 3 hard drives? If you have the CD as the fourth device, then it is hdd. Realize also that having a cdrom attached to the same channel that a hard drive is on will slow down the HD, as the channel resets to the slower device, cdrom. Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...