HD now okay but no CDROM

[Pete]

  Chuck
  If I am not misstaken the udma/ata controllers support upto 4 devices on
each ide channel for a total of 8 drives.  You really need to find out
whitch is the primary channel and use it for the hard drives one set as
master and other set as slave.  Put the cdrom on the secondary channel and
set as master.  Some mother boards have 4 40 pin ide conecters is this what
you have? or just 2 40 pin conecters.
  Also the ata ide ribbon has 80 wires in it instead of the normal ide cable
having 40 wires. check this as well.  The ata ribbon has one 40 pin conecter
a different collor then the other two conecters, it is the one that goes to
the ide conecter on the mother board and the remaining two go to the two
hard drives you are attaching/conecting/installing.  Just geusing it sounds
like you might have the hard drives on the secondary and the cdrom on the
primary instead of the other way around.  To be on the safe side check both
hard drive jumpers settings along whith the jumper on the cdrom.  Some hard
drive manufactures have another jumper to set if you are using more than one
drive, hopefully not the case.
  Good luck!
  Pete

> Hi people -
>
> We have continued to work on Londa's Slackware installation from
> time to time and have made some progress. The new HD is now
> correctly jumpered as a slave device, but in order to detect
> either the original HD or the new one we had to use the ata100.i
> bootdisk instead of bare.i, and the four devices now seem to use
> the letters 'e' through 'h' instead of 'a' through 'd'. The first
> four letters are no longer visible, which means our CDROM which
> was once reported at /dev/hdc is no longer visible.
>
> If anyone has found any shortcuts to work around this problem we
> would sure appreciate knowing about them. The system to which we
> are adding Linux is in heavy daily use since Londa moderates a
> couple of active discussion lists in the Windows environment, so
> we have only occasional access to the system.
>
> The ata100.i bootdisk is not just differently configured from
> bare.i, but it is a patched kernel, which will challenge us when
> it comes time to reconfigure or add further patches or upgrade.
> Does anyone know offhand whether the 2.4 kernel series supports
> UDMA or UATA more directly? This is the first time I have had to
> deal with a machine that has been so strongly optimized for
> Windows and we both have a lot to learn here.
>
> Thanks for any help... Chuck
>
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