[ale] moving CD-ROM from master to slave

[Robert E. Karaffa, II]

thanks for the replies.  both drives work, in that I can access them in the
normal manner.  the jumpers are set correctly, and I've found nothing in any
config files that would lead me to believe something is wrong.
    I've not detected any errors, bad blocks, etc., that might indicate bad
hardware.
    I've read recently that a kernel upgrade is a possible fix, and I'm due
for a Mandrake update anyways, so I might hedge my bets and see if that is a
fix.

-Bob K.


on 5/14/03 2:28 PM, Geoffrey at esoteric at 3times25.net wrote:

> Did you set the jumpers correctly on the two drives.  Depending on the
> age of the drives, hdc should be set as master, and the cdrom as slave.
> Some drives have a third setting when it's a single drive on the ide.
> 
> Robert E. Karaffa, II wrote:
>> hi folks, I've been trying to find information about this and haven't
>> come up with anything that makes sense.  Here's what I've done:
>> 
>> -an old Gateway 200MHz Mandrake box. -originally had two hard drives
>> and one CD-ROM -boot drive is 3Gb, master on IDE0 -storage drive is
>> 6Gb, slave on IDE0 -CD-ROM is master on IDE1
>> 
>> I added an 80Gb IDE drive to give us added storage capacity, and to
>> improve performance (the initial Mandrake install I did was, well,
>> not done as well as it could have been, like, /var didn't have its
>> own partition, nor did /home, or /usr...geez...).
>> 
>> so I put the 80Gb drive as master on IDE1, moved the CD-ROM to slave,
>> and thought all was well.  Now, I'm seeing {Drive Not Ready}{Waiting
>> for DMA} messages for hdc in dmesg and, of course, at bootup. I've
>> been trying to find out how the CD-ROM gets assigned its "hd"
>> designation, since I've effectively moved it from hdc to
>> hdd...correct?  and now, since hdc is a hard drive...well, fstab
>> doesn't specify that the CD-ROM was hdc, although now hdc is the new
>> 80Gb drive which holds /var and /home, and hdd should be the CD-ROM.
>> 
>> Can anyone straighten me out?
>> 
>> 
>> -Bob K.

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