Hardware Question

[Kerry Hoath]

I've posted on this before but here we go again:
With the connectors of the cdrom towards you you have:
power on the right, 4-pin.
IDE ribbon connector 40-pin
then a jumper block then redbook audio then digital out and mode jumpers working your way to the left.
The jumper pins closed to the 40-pin ribbon cable is master,
the next set are slave and the next set are cable select.
If there is a secondary ide controller put the cdrom on that since
some hard drives have different jumperings for single drive
and drive with slave especially western digital.
Otherwise cdrom as slave is on the center of the set of 3 jumpers next to the ribbon.

Regards, Kerry.
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 06:57:07PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> Hi.
> I am installing a temperary verson of linux on an old 486 box.  To Get linux from the winblows machine to the 486, I need to install a CDrom.  I hooked it to the same ribbon as the hd since there was room, but it won't boot with the cdrom on the controler.  How do I tell the hd to be master and cdrom to be slave?
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