Re: [OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem (CLOSED)
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:01:34 -0700, Gary Roach wrote:
> On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>>> I finally fudged things. I set the bios so that it recognized the
>>> cdrom and installed Debian Linux. I then rebooted, F2ed to the bios
>>> and changed it so that it could find the hard drive. That worked.
>>> Since I don't have to boot to the cdrom very often I can live with
>>> it. I'm tired of fooling with the problem.
>>>
>>>
>> Mmm, is the CD-ROM unit still visible/accessible within the OS? If not,
>> you can try to connect it to port IDE1 (same as the hard disk) as
>> slave, that could make a difference (buy a longer IDE cable if the
>> devices are separated enough) or extract the optical unit and use it
>> with an external USB case.
>>
>>
>>
> Yes, the cd unit is visible within the OS. Everything is working fine. I
> installed an additional drive on the same IDE port as a slave. With
> ATA/IDE Configure set to Legacy the bios recognizes both drives but not
> the CDROM. Just as before. Once booted, everything works fine.
It's indeed weird, but at least now you know a slave unit conneted to the
master IDE port is also detected and thus you can use it to boot from
there, should needed.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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