Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:48:23 +0100 | From | Marcin Gil <> | Subject | Re: JMicron PATA 2.6.24-rc7 can't find drives |
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Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 03:30:44PM +0100, Marcin Gil wrote: >> This is not a problem. I've posted (in original mail) that DVD is found >> fine (and linked as /dev/cdrom). But I have a Maxtor HDD on the same >> ide-tape and it is not detected at all. > > Are you using an 80 pin IDE cable and are both drives set to cable > select (usually preferable) or is one master and one slave? > Yes, this is 80-wire cable; both are connected on the same cable. HDD is master and DVD is slave. I'll later try disconnecting DVD and see what happens. I didn't set cable-select due to how these drives are connected
+-----+-----+ mobo hdd dvd
I think that cable select would take dvd as master and hdd as slave. This was not preferable when hdd was my primary drive. I can try cable-select now since I boot off new SATA drive.
Thank you, -Marcin Gil
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