Hardware Question

[Kerry Hoath]

There should be a jumper on there otherwise the cdrom 
probably defaults to slave or cable select.
Hard drives differ so it depends on make
and model so if you give me those I might be able
to help.

Regards, Kerry.
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:40:14PM -0500, Alex Snow wrote:
> Hi.
> Thanks for the quick response!
> Yup.  Thats the way the cdrom looks.  Only problemis, The three sets of
> jumpers don't have any of those jumper things on them.  They just are three
> sets of 2 pins.
> Found it on the hd thou.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 8:34 PM
> Subject: Re: Hardware Question
> 
> 
> > 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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