Strange things with my hard drive

[Kerry Hoath]

No greg this is not the case at all.
To quote from the ATA specification:
"A single device on an ATA bus shall be jumpered as master..."
In fact this is documented in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt
Sometimes however certain drives and controllers don't follow the standards and do
work with cdrom as slave only however the vast majority
will work just fine with cdrom as master.
I have seen machines that become rather unstable when accessing the cdrom if it is
slave and the only device on a cable.
Linux probes for both master and slave on a cable; but success is more likely if
a single device on a cable is master.
One day all this might not matter; when everything truly becomes plug and play but until then,
i'm glad i've put as many machines together as I have to know all the quirks that I have seen.

Regards, Kerry.
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 01:06:29PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Here's my 2 grosze or cents worth (whichever you prefer) (grin).
> As far as I know, if your cd-rom drive is alone on a controller, it should be jumpered as slave, unless of course there is something else on that controller with it.
> Greg
> 
>  
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:26:20AM +0100, Victor Tsaran wrote:
> > Hell, listers!
> > I know some of you, especially Kerry, are big hardware specialists. Hope you
> > will be able to advise something for me this time as well.
> > I am putting together a new machine. Whenever I connect the hard drive to
> > the IDE0 and CDROM to IDE1, both on master, I get "hard disk failed...", but
> > CDROM is found. However, if I connect hard drive to IDE1 and CDROM to IDE0,
> > both to master, then both are recognized fine. Why is this hapenning? I
> > tried these combinations several times, and the same result comes out.
> > Can you suggest something?
> > Victor
> > 
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