[Leaplist] CentOS question ....

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 19 January 2007 00:14, Damien McKenna wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2007, at 12:14 AM, David Simmons wrote:
> > It's weird that your optical drives doesn't show up in
> > dmesg....maybe double
> > check connections....replace IDE cables....re-quadruple check the
> > jumpers
>
> Almost every time I've heard of a problem with a newly installed HD
> or optical drive not working it has been because of the cable and/or
> jumpers set incorrectly.  Remember, if you have to drives on a cable
> the drive at the end of the cable should be jumperred for Master
> while the one in the middle should be Slave (I don't do the cable-
> select thing myself).  Also, it is best to do one drive per cable,
> but still remember that it must be jumperred correctly or it probably
> still won't work.

I've never heard that. Is that for IDE drives? What would happen if the master 
were the middle and the slave were the end?

SteveT


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