Re: Installer for Woody hangs - more info

Rothwellc9_at_aol.com
Date: 11/29/04

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    Hi,
     
    Looking inside my box I find that my hard drive uses a SATA connector but my
    CD/DVD connects with an ATA(ribbon) connector. So I think the problem
    revolves around SATA support in Linux. Does anyone know if sarge deals with SATA
    effectively? Perhaps buying a SATA cd/dvd drive will resolve the problem. (I
    could go back to an ATA hard drive except that I've only got the one ribbon
    cable slot).
     
    Chris Rothwell _Rothwellc9@aol.com_ (mailto:Rothwellc9@aol.com)
     
    Previous advice:
     
    Hi

    First of all I am no expert on this but perhaps I can help...

    On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 22:14, Rothwellc9@aol.com wrote:
    >
    > Hello I have an installation related problem with debian 3(Woody). I
    > am totally new to linux
    > and have probably done something stupid ,but very early in the
    > installation process the installer hangs. My machine has a Pentium 4,
    > an Intel D915G motherboard,1 hard disk and a CDROM .
    [...]
    > Your first IDE hard disk is not connected as the primary master
    > device
    > (/dev/hda). To get around this most BIOS setups enable emulation so
    > that the
    > first disk is seen as IDE-0 in the boot environment. This emulation
    > cannot
    > be detected by Linux or LILO. However,we can define /dev/hde as the
    > first
    > hard disk in the LILO configuration to allow LILO to take advantage
    > of the
    > emulation. Would you like to enable the mapping?"
    [...]

    I believe this answers your question: your hard disk appears to be
    attached to the secondary master cable. IIRC you can connect two IDE
    cables to most motherboards, both of these have three connectors: on on
    the motherboard side and two on the other side. This allows you to
    connect 4 devices. e.g. hard disk, cd-rom, cd-rw, ...

    What I understand from the error-message above is that you haven't
    connected any (working) device on the primary cable (as master, which
    usually is the connector 'at the end' of the cable.).

    This could mean that you have two hard disks of which one is broken. Or
    that you need to plug the cable into the other slot on your
    motherboard. Make sure to read your hardware documentation before
    trying this! Or better yet ask someone with experience to look into
    this.

    > Why does linux set my hard disk to hde and not hda? And is there
    > anything I can do about it?

    Apparantly your BIOS has a way to fool that other OS into believing your
    hard is connected to the 'usual' device. As you didn't specify whether
    or not you enabled the mapping the installer mentioned I cannot tell
    whether something is wrong with the mapping or that enabling this will
    help.

    HTH

    Bram 

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# Mertens Bram  "M8ram"   <bram-mertens@linux.be>
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