On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 11:40:55AM +0200, Marc van der Vossen wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone have any ideas on this: > I have a Zip-drive as master IDE on my second controller and my CD-rom is > slave on the same controller. Whenever I want to acces my CD, it spins up my > Zip, but doesn't read the files. The CD-rom drive doesn't get activated at > all. > > How can I configure the system to use both drives. If that isn't possible > for now I'll live with it, but would like to have a functional CD-rom, > because my Linux, CD's are coming in this week. > > Thanks in advance for your ideas, I had a similar problem, I have a SyQuest SparQ 1 gig drive, and a cdrom. I put the SparQ on secondary master and the cdrom on secondary slave, but linux would only detect my cdrom.. Then I looked at the jumpers at bit more closely, and found that I forgot to set the cdrom to be the slave drive. I suspect you have the same problem.
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