Re: [opensuse] Installation disk detection problems

Michael Fischer wrote:
Hmm. I can't quite figure out the whole master-slave port thing here.
I can only see what happens in the BIOS reporting as I move the
connections around on the motherboard. Putting both HD's into what
appeared to be "slave" ports got the BIOS to say "hey, I can't find
a master HD", not surprisingly. Also not surprisingly, SuSE didn't
find them either.
Master/Slave was an obsession of the IDE protocol:
There you need to set a jumper on each hard disk
so that every IDE cable only has one master (and one slave),
or CS (cable select) both. Sata does not need this.

Kind regards Philippe
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