May have solved my 80-gig hd problem

[Aaron Howell]

Funnily enough, i had the same problem with my new maxtor 80gb drive.
The bios was quite happy to see it if it was set to slave (allbeit only as a 32gb drive),
but it flat out refused to boot if the drive was set to master or cable select.
It would get to detecting primary master and halt.
Given that it was an atrend motherboard, and atrend either don't seem to be in busines anymore, or, their website just plain doesn't work, my solution was to go buy a new bard, chip,  ram and case,
and my poor old celeron 466 from 5 years ago has finally been retired.
The new board (intel i845pebp2) finds the drive without a hitch.
Regards
Aaron
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 02:17:25PM -0500, Joseph Norton wrote:
> Hi listers:
> 
> Yesterday, I reported trying to get Redhad 8.0 to boot with an ata133 
> controler card to get my 80-gig hd running.  I still had no success 
> there.  However, I was able to hook the hd up to the 2nd IDE port and get 
> it to work with Western Digital's Easy Bios utility that they use with 
> their drives.  Now, the hd is recognized as /dev/hdd.  However, I couldn't 
> get it to be called the "master" drive.  The only way I can get the jumpers 
> set so the computer will act happy and not hang at boot time is to set it 
> so that the computer reports the hd as slave and the CD burner as master (I 
> understand it should really be the other way around, but, I couldn't seem 
> to make any other jumper settings work.).  Now, redhat 8.0 seems to install 
> properly, but, I am wondering if any of you have had similar sessions where 
> you about pulled all of your hair out trying to get a piece of hardware 
> recognized the right way and if you can give some pointers on any kind of a 
> better solution.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
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