On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Alvin Oga wrote:
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> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote:
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> > My master drive is on the end of the cable, but that is not the WD drive.
> > When installing, the ribbon was clearly marked on the connectors for
> > master and slave. This is a Gateway 500 running a Pentium III at 500 MHZ.
> > The other drives are a CDROM mapped to /dev/hdc and an LS120 mapped to
> > /dev/hdd which imposes curious limitations on my use of the LS120 as a
> > floppy drive in that I cannot format diskettes on it from the Debian Linux
> > woody bf2.4 system.
>
> that is a different problem than master/slave issue ..
> ls120 is ez or hairpulling ...
>
> make sure your lilo/grub config doesnt specify anything about /dev/hdd
>
> and i would NOT mix ls120 on the same cable as the cdrom
>
> - best way to avoid problems .. 1 "widget" per ide cable
> - if you insist on using master and slave devices,
> make sure its from the same manufacturer and same model#
>
> - otherwise, the scsi-folks will be happily smiling :-)
> - but now with 10K and 15K rpm ide disks, it should
> remove one more barrier that ide might be able to
> keep up with scsi for a fraction of the costs
>
> c ya
> alvin
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>
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Actually, I was mixing topics in the same post rather than devices on the
same cable.
The two hard drives are on one ribbon cable.
The LS120 is the floppy drive for the Gateway 500. It can handle the
standard 3.5 inch hard floppies and Imation 120 MB SuperDisk. I doubt
that it's available anymore. Because of its difference, it apparently was
not identified as a floppy drive. Using makedev (sp?) to roll my own
device may be another skill that I'll have to acquire!
Sincerely,
(Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless
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