RE: [PLUG] Curious hardware? issue

["Gleeson, Francis (HT-EX)" <FGleeson@GI.com>]

Title: RE: [PLUG] Curious hardware? issue

I disagree, the original posters info is a little sketchy.
But I think his desired hardware config is something like

IDE0: Master: (Unknown EIDE drive): Partition1[Win98 FAT32]
      Slave:  (Maxtor 2 Gig):       standard RH7.1 partitioning

Without the slave Windows boots normally, which means it is finding the
FAT partition. He went to the trouble of using a second disk to avoid
upsetting windows. So I think it is safe to assume a standard DOS fdisk
1 big primary partition that spans the whole disk on the Master.

The fact that it works perfectly until the second disk is connected makes
me suspect there is bus or interrupt contention on IDE0. The most likely
cause is either operator error (wrong jumper settings) or a disk that pays
no attention to jumper settings either by design (Sergei's Western Digital)
or by accident (fried circuits).
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: LeRoy Cressy [mailto:lcressy@telocity.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 8:56 AM
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Curious hardware? issue
>
>
> I remember hearing of a simular situation and if my memory serves me
> correctly I think the solution was to put the drive on ide 1.  Windows
> is trying to look at ide 0 and sees a drive partitioned that
> it does not
> know how to deal with.  ext2 partitions cannot be mounted and there is
> no FAT partition for it to mount.  Thus Windows locks up and finally
> gives up!
>
>