ide problem

[Richard Villa]

There is no standard pin lay-out on drives.  There may be a standard for a
particular manufacturer, but not any standard for the industry.

Richard

If you are going to burn all of your bridges, you better be able to walk on
water.

----- Original Message -----
From: <igueths at attbi.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 6:18 AM
Subject: Re: ide problem


> Ok ide problem fixed. Turns out that the Cd drive was not in CSEL mode
like the
> other drive had been before I swapped it out. I was having a sighted
person
> help me with this, and it didn't occur to me that this could be the
problem.
> Just for reference, is there any type of standard pin configuration? I.e.,
> master, slave, CSEL, etc? I would think this is highly unlikely, however
when I
> want to swap in/out some hardware, I want to be able to do it with nobody
> around.
> > If one of the Ide devices is not properly jumppered, then you will not
be
> > able to use the other device on the controller.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > If you are going to burn all of your bridges, you better be able to walk
on
> > water.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at attbi.com>
> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 3:44 PM
> > Subject: ide problem
> >
> >
> > > Hi all. Got quite an interesting problem here. I just recently got an
> > > Optiplex GX110L and figured I'd throw in my already Linuxed hdd in
there.
> > > After doing that, everything worked except the cdrw drive which was
from
> > > my old machine. This box appears to have an onboard ide controller,
and
> > > also an onboard floppy controller. So the config is like this: ide,
> > > floppy, ide. The RW drive is set to slave, and I presume the hdd is
> > > mastered. Haven't checked that though. When I boot the system, the hdd
is
> > > picked up by the kernel. Also the floppy drive is mapped to /dev/fd0
as
> > > expected. However the RW is left unmapped. Could this be a bad IDE
> > > connector? I think the only thing left to do here is test a bootable
Cd
> > > with Debian on it for example to see if it will boot. Does anyone have
any
> > > other ideas they can throw out, or other variables I should check for?
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > May you code in the power of the source,
> > > may the kernel, libraries, and utilities be with you,
> > > throughout all distributions until the end of the epoch.
> > >
> > >
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