Re: IDE, controller, ????

I think I found the problem......and explains why it shows up as IDE5.

I built this system a while ago, and don't know why I did this but I did. I
opened the case and noticed the following:

On the primary IDE I have the Sony DVDrw as the master, and the Plextor CDRW
as the slave....wait it gets better......
Nothing on the 2nd IDE.
Then I noticed I put a SCSI card (PCI slot ..giving me 2 more IDE slots) to
which I have the WinXp hard drive as master and the Maxtor hardrive as
slave. Nothing on the 2nd IDE.

I guess this explains the long time for the partitioner, huh?
My next question, although not sure if this is the right group is this:

If I move the cable (with the DVDrw and the CDrw) from primary IDE to the
2nd IDE (on mb) and then move the cable (with the hard drives) from the pci
card to the primary IDE (on the mb) will it boot normally? Do I risk messing
up my WinXp hard drive?

I think once I straighten this out, loading Debian won't be a problem. For
the life of me I don't know why I threw the scsi pci card in there let alone
connect the hard drives to it and not the motherboard.

Thanks for all the help.

<spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dan Miner <dminer84@xxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:


That is *way* too long.

I've never installed Sarge but most of my Linux distro installs are
around 30-50 mins depending on package size. I installed Ubuntu in 20
minutes under VMware a week ago.

I am suspecting your having a problem with the IDE driver and your IDE
controller. For example, if DMA is turned off for some reason, you'll
get like 4-5MB/s transfer rates.... this will take forever with today's
distros.

Some chipsets end up with DMA turned off by default but CAN have it turned
on... So during the install try flipping to a command line console and
typing

hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc

(might as well speed cdrom transfers too)

If that doesn't work the only other thing that causes massive formatting
times is bad harddisks... check it for bad blocks.

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