hi ya kjetil
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
For a long time, I have had problems before boot: My primary master disk
is sometimes not detected, and thus, the machine doesn't boot. It
happens about once a month, and it is completely magic to me: I usually
pull the power cable, fiddle a bit with the IDE cable to the primary
disk, reconnects and that does the trick. If these actions have an
effect, I really do not know, and sometimes, like this morning, a lot
more fiddling was required...
i'd replace the ide cables ... with new 80 conductor cable
What I see is that if the primary master disk isn't detected, the
primary slave isn't either.
that'd depend on:
- the jumper settings on your disk
- the manufacturer of the disk
- the disk controller
- it is normally, supposed to find the slave disk, even if the master
is dead or non-existent
However, if I pull the IDE cable from the
primary master, the primary slave is detected.
that probably means your jumpers on the disk is not right
- set the jumpers on the disk to be both cable select
or explicity set master on the disk at the end of the cable
and explicity set slave ont he disk int he middle of the cable
using master on the middle of the cable can create whackyness