Hardware Question

[Ed Barnes]

Hi Alex.
Just curious if you know the manufacturer of this cd-rom and its model 
number and if you could send it along.
This may help in one of us or yourself consulting the manufacturers 
regarding the drive's default behaviour as it seems that it is jumperless.
Also, how old approximately is it, and what speed is it, as you probably 
know, there are less and less certainties with regard to cd-roms when you 
get into 1x, 2x, and 4x teritory or even a bit later.
I would second Kerry's suggestion regarding that it probably defaults to 
either slave or cable select if it is without jumpers.
I feel however that if we had more info on the drive, I.E., model and 
manufacturer as mentioned above that this would help us a great deal.
I should close with a bit of a disclaimer of sorts, despite the fact I have 
loads of hardware experience in respect to DOS and Windows environments I 
am a linux newbie in the wirse way though I am chomping at the bit.
Regards,
Ed Barnes


At 06:10 PM 08/03/2002, you 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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