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On Saturday 08 March 2003 15:24, FX Fraipont wrote:
I had something similar which bugged me for months, but involved not the ide hd's, but the cdrom and cdrw on the second ide channel (hdc and hdd). I have a Pioneer cdrom drive (hdc) as master and an Aopen cdrw (hdd) as slave. Ide-scsi is used for the cdrw.
<snip> symptoms </snip>
I first suspected a motherboard problem, but the problem remained after I moved from an MSI to an Epox. I then changed my video card, to no avail.
The problem only disappeared when I removed the two cd drives, and changed from master/slave to cable select on both drives. Since then, everything has been fine.
I don't know if this makes any sense, I just know that my ploblem has disappeared.
FX
Yes it does make sense - someone else emailed me direct with a similar problem of the CD roms causing HD problems. When you removed the two CD drives did you just leave them out and use cable select on the hard drives. Or did you mean that you replaced them on the second IDE with cable-select enabled? Thanks for the info! -- Ray