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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