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Re: Install problem on Supermicro X6DHT-G system



On Monday 02 January 2006 21:56, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 04:51:32PM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> > Debian Installers. My BIOS reports
> >
> > IDE Channel 0 Master 250GB SATA1
> > IDE Channel 1 Slave  CD-ROM
>
> That is probably the whole problem.  The SATA should NOT be treated as
> an ide device unless you are trying to install something obsolete like
> windows XP which doesn't do SATA natively.

More importantly you've got a slave device with no master on the same channel. 
That's not supposed to work, and asking for all sorts of strange problems.

Paul



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