From: "Doug Sutherland" <doug@proficio.ca>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: three hds? is this possible?
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 20:17:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <008e01c798ea$53ba8390$ab00a8c0@tenstac> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001801c798df$e1a0f6e0$6701a8c0@GRANDMA>
In the BIOS settings, there should be four settings, one master and
one slave for each controller. If your BIOS allows for an AUTO
setting try that and it should auto-detect the drives. On most of the
older BIOS there was an auto detect function you could invoke
by pressing a key like F8 or similar and it would detect the drives
and set the BIOS properly, newer BIOS can auto-detect at boot
time. If you know which slave slot is for CD and if there is a CD
setting in the BIOS, use that setting, and check to make sure the
CD drive is jumpered as slave.
If drives are not showing up then usually they are either not
jumpered correctly or the BIOS setting is not correct. There are
two other possible pains with old BIOS, one is limitation of
drive size, some older BIOS may not support the full capacity.
Some drives have a special jumper setting for this which will
limit the drive size for older BIOS. And in some rare cases
you need to manually set the capacity, number of cylinders
and tracks, although its becoming rare that you'd have to do
that anymore.
The most important thing is making sure the drives are
jumpered correctly as one master and one slave on each
cable and making sure the drive is enabled in BIOS, if
there is an auto setting in BIOS try that, if the drive is
still not working, the drive will be labeled with info for
cylinder/track/capacity and you can set them manually.
Hopefully you will not need to do this.
-- Doug
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` three hds? is this possible? Alex Snow
` Glenn Ervin
` Doug Sutherland
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