Re: Problem booting FC5 after good install and doing the "first boot" configuration

On 4/15/06, Debbie Deutsch <fedoralist@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Kam Leo wrote:

1. Are you using Cable Select? If yes, is the hard drive located at
the end of the cable?

I, personally, do not trust Cable Select. Not because Cable Select
does not work, but because I do not trust mixing old with new. There
old products around which do not fully comply with today's standards.
On any drive on an IDE chain I make sure that jumpers are used to
configure the master and slave device. I recommend that you do the
same.

2. Move the optical drive to the secondary IDE channel. Make it the
master. Yes, use a jumper. Any interference in operation between the
hard drive and the optical will be removed and in the process you will
improve the data transfer between the optical and hard drive.



Hi Kam,

Thanks for the suggestions. If memory serves, the drives are jumpered
as you suggest. In any case, they are both being correctly recognized
by the BIOS. The hard drive is at the end of the cable and is the
master; the optical drive is on the middle of the cable and is the
slave. The hard drive is 3 years old and supports cable select. The
barebones system and the optical drive are new. So, I suppose I could
change the jumpers, but I would be flabbergasted if they were the cause
of the problem.

There is only one IDE connector on the mother board. (There are two
SATA connectors that are going unused, though.) Short of getting an IDE
controller and installing it on the PCI bus, I cannot put the optical
drive on a different IDE channel than the hard drive. OTOH, this system
does not have to be optimized for speed. It's just going to run some
servers for me. So, the optical drive will be used only rarely, and
then mostly for installing software. (Backups go to disks on a
different system.)

Debbie


Only one IDE connector! And I thought my system was cheap. You really
have an economy motherboard.

Seriously, the sharing of that single bus does affect operation of all
devices. Try turning off dma. If that solves your problem I recommend
that you replace the hard drive with an SATA one.

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