On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 01:16:36PM +1000, Andy Gayton wrote: > I'm running stable woody 3.0r2. > > I originally installed the machine with 2 hard drives on the primary ide > controller and a cd drive as master on the secondary controller. I > installed off cd and everything came up fine. > I've now tried to add a third hard drive onto the secondary ide controller. > I think I got the master/slave settings conflicting when I first tried to > bring the system up - I didn't have a monitor on the box when bringing it > up the first couple times. The box came up ok and the 2 drives on the > primary controller were all good, but nothing from the secondary > controller. I put a monitor on to see what was going on, the bios was > detecting everything ok, but I still couldn't see anything from inside of > linux for the secondary controller. The bios was displaying this message: > > secondary ide channel no 80 conductor cable installed <snip> > > Which looks like I should be using a different cable, but shouldn't stop > things from working? Hi Andy, I'd really check the drive jumpers. Just to be 200% sure that they are setup correctly! -Kev
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