Re: ata2: STST failed (error -5)
On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:38:46 -0400, dave boland wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:06 +0000, "Camaleón" wrote:
(...)
>> > But once again, it needs to be pointed out that Debian 5, and its
>> > derivatives, have no problem with the hard drives. So something has
>> > changed, and not for the good. My question is what has changed and
>> > why?
>>
>> Maybe something in kernel, I'd say. And is not so uncommon to see those
>> types of changes and having to make some bypass for getting through.
(...)
> I finally got around to doing a few diagnostics on this problem, and no
> change. First I checked the master slave setting of all three drives.
> The hard drive is set to master, and one CD drive is master the other
> one is slave. The CD's are on IDE2 and the hard drive is on IDE1.
Good.
> Next, I disconnected the hard drive from the center connector on the IDE
> ribbon cable and then reconnected the drive to the end connector (where
> I'm told it should be). I still get the same errors.
>
> Then I followed a tip one of you passed along and disconnected the drive
> ribbon cable completely, and exactly the same thing.
The idea was to left only the minimal drives to perform the install (or
booting the LiveCD), I mean, leaving the hard disk and one of the optical
units (test it with the two units, first disconnect one and then the
other). In addition to disconnect the cable, you can also disable that
port from BIOS just to ensure it is not detected by the installer.
> In both cased I can completely use the Mepis 8.5 CD, but the latest
> Mepis and the Debian 6 DVD have serious issues with a drive that is not
> there.
>
> So what are my options? Try a new IDE cable? Try connecting a second
> hard drive? Other suggestions?
Avoid using a CD/DVD as medium and try from an USB key :-?
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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