Re: [SLE] DVDrom not working with 2 hard disks and a CDrom

From: nbday (nday_at_uno.edu)
Date: 02/19/05

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Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:06:29 -0600

    On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 19:41, nbday wrote:
    > On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 17:58, Bruce Samhaber wrote:
    > > On Friday 18 February 2005 16:16, N. B. Day wrote:
    > > <SNIP>
    >
    > >
    > > Hi N.B.,
    > >
    > > I find your last statement very interesting.
    > > Are you saying that a CD drive won't work on IDE0?
    > > I always assumed that any drive would work on either IDE0 or IDE1 as long as
    > > there was a Master if there is a slave. What you are saying would explain why
    > > my DVD rom does not work. I have the following drives.
    > > /dev/hda hard disk
    > > /dev/hdb DVD rom
    > > /dev/hdc hard disk
    > > /dev/hdd CD writer
    > >
    > Nothing wrong with that setup. It is true that any IDE device should
    > work on any IDE port, but operating systems get confused by egregiously
    > non-standard setups like the OP apparently has: no master on 0, a cdrw
    > as slave on 0 and a harddisk as master on 1.
    >
    > I don't see anything wrong with your setup from the cabling / jumpering
    > point of view. DVD readers are cheap enough now that I'd think of
    > getting another to swap in there to test by substitution.
    >
    > The received wisdom years ago was that it was better to put hard disks
    > together on one cable and CD type devices on another, but I don't think
    > that's much of an issue anymore since CD devices are all ATA-33 now.
    >
    > Try hdparm -iI /dev/hda then /dev.hdb etc. and see what you see.
    >
    > regards,

    Sorry, sent to the poster, not to the list. Hard to get used to this
    odd way of doing things 

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