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Re: [fixed]New installation problem



On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 09:28:52PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, Lazar Fleysher wrote:
> 
>  : I have connected the cdrom to the secondary channel as a slave drive and
>  : everything works. I have hard disk on primary ( master) and no other
>  : devices are connected to the controller.
> 
> This is not a valid configuration - you cannot have an IDE channel with
> a slave device and no master (Windows allows this, but it's not in the
> IDE spec)

Maybe not, but it usually works just fine with linux too. In my desktop,
hda and hdb are disks and hdd is the CD-ROM. No point in changing it, since
it works (and I would have to muck around with the DOS drivers).


Hamish
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