[Leaplist] CentOS question ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

Steve Litt wrote:

>On Friday 19 January 2007 00:14, Damien McKenna wrote:
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>>On Jan 19, 2007, at 12:14 AM, David Simmons wrote:
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>>>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
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>>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.
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>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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>
>Steve Litt
>Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
>http://www.troubleshooters.com/
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Just for IDE drives. I tried that on a buddy of mine & he said he didn't 
think it was a problem, said he thought it might have been true in 
80386/80486 days, but no more. My DVD *is* correct;ly recognised as 
secondary master during POST, & is the 2nd of 2 drives on that cable, so 
I think I'm OK there .... I still think it might be too new for CentOS 
4.4, but I searched their archives manually this A.M. & found nothing 
about it either way, so I'm still stuck. I might go to FC6, I know it's 
supported there, I mostly just wanted to get out of SuSE & into 
something hopefully more reliable, so I tried the CentOS ....

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