From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [204.233.198.50] (helo=linserver.complex) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16fMC2-0003wN-00 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:33:30 -0500 Received: (from gnowak1@localhost) by linserver.complex (8.11.4/8.10.2) id g1PEX2300530 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 08:33:02 -0600 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 08:33:02 -0600 From: Gregory Nowak To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Strange things with my hard drive Message-ID: <20020225083302.A526@uic.edu> References: <000b01c1bd93$a7e5ec30$b621fea9@Cybertsar> <20020224130629.A1052@uic.edu> <005501c1bdcc$ca86e260$9d2efea9@j7o5o8> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <005501c1bdcc$ca86e260$9d2efea9@j7o5o8>; from persuric@ameritech.net on Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:19:40AM -0500 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Since he's building a new machine, his bios probably has a drive limit way over 8 gb. Greg On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 02:19:40AM -0500, Pete wrote: > > Can you check your bios/cmos settings? Some bioses require cdrom drives > to be set to none and others have a cdrom selection while yet other bioses > will work whith auto or none set for the cdrom. If the hard drive is les > than (8 gig? the bioses limit? or maybe 2 or 4 gig limit?) set up the hard > drive whith the C H S values in cmos. Usually setting the P I O and the U > D M A modes to auto will work. There may be a couple of settings like L B > A (larg block addressing) or I think another one called just large mode. If > your lucky you can set this one to auto. More likely there either an on/off > or check box to check. I geus what I am really trying to say is check the > settings in bios/cmos for the hard drive you are trying to install. > Depending on what hard drive you have there may be two jumpers to set. One > for master / slave etc and another one for cylinder limitation. The > cylinder limitation for example: if you have a bios/cmos whith an 8 gig > limit and your hard drive is 10 gig, you would set both master and cylinder > limitation jumpers. Some computers wont boot unless the cylinder limit > jumper is set to occomidate the limit in bios/cmos most I have seen will > boot any way so not booting could tell you some thing. Usually no jumpers > on the cdrom meens slave. Also most cdrom and hard drives have jumpers for: > master, slave and cable select. You may have a system whith cable select, > in which case set all drives to cable select (CS). The cable select, this > setting detirmines by possission which drive is master and which one is > slave. How new are the hard drive and cdrom and how old is the motherboard? > Pete > > > Hell, listers! > > I know some of you, especially Kerry, are big hardware specialists. Hope > you > > will be able to advise something for me this time as well. > > I am putting together a new machine. Whenever I connect the hard drive to > > the IDE0 and CDROM to IDE1, both on master, I get "hard disk failed...", > but > > CDROM is found. However, if I connect hard drive to IDE1 and CDROM to > IDE0, > > both to master, then both are recognized fine. Why is this hapenning? I > > tried these combinations several times, and the same result comes out. > > Can you suggest something? > > Victor > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup