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Re: [LUG] Hardware question

 


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> Hi, My motherboard has tweo IDE sockets, I expect like a lot 
> of mbs. Problem 
> is the secondary IDE slot seems completly useless!. I have 
> yet to get any 
> device to work through it. It even messes up the 
> configuration of the drives 
> on IDE one if I try to use it. DOes anyone have any 
> experience of this? I 
> have tried various configurations using the BIOS....every 
> configuration I 
> can think of.. Also I have a SCSI cd drive that I'm trying to 
> use. THe 
> device is seen properly during boot but ubuntu doesn't see 
> the devise. ANy 
> ideas about this aswell?
> Cheers, Jonny D,
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Have you tried a different IDE cable. Ive seen a lot of problems solved just
by doing that ?

Also if you are trying to connect two drives with the same cable have you
tried just one as master of the first ide connector of the cable ?


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