ls120 Re: wd - Re: Hard Drive Limitations
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote:
> My master drive is on the end of the cable, but that is not the WD drive.
> When installing, the ribbon was clearly marked on the connectors for
> master and slave. This is a Gateway 500 running a Pentium III at 500 MHZ.
> The other drives are a CDROM mapped to /dev/hdc and an LS120 mapped to
> /dev/hdd which imposes curious limitations on my use of the LS120 as a
> floppy drive in that I cannot format diskettes on it from the Debian Linux
> woody bf2.4 system.
that is a different problem than master/slave issue ..
ls120 is ez or hairpulling ...
make sure your lilo/grub config doesnt specify anything about /dev/hdd
and i would NOT mix ls120 on the same cable as the cdrom
- best way to avoid problems .. 1 "widget" per ide cable
- if you insist on using master and slave devices,
make sure its from the same manufacturer and same model#
- otherwise, the scsi-folks will be happily smiling :-)
- but now with 10K and 15K rpm ide disks, it should
remove one more barrier that ide might be able to
keep up with scsi for a fraction of the costs
c ya
alvin
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