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In message <fFfVxIiCZ/pL083yn@cpcug.org> - zetan@cpcug.org (David Lerner)24
Mar 1996 20:45:51 -0500 writes:
:>
:>In article <4ivdq5$fnh@clarknet.clark.net>,
:>whittengetc/HOSTNAME (Gary Whitten) wrote:
:>> I have had many problems with my new Linux system after installing
RedHat 2.1
:>> and 3.0.3 (which uses both IDE controllers in my system for the first
time).
:>> 
:>[snip...]
:>>  I have tried to follow the IDE/ATAPI rules as best as I can interpret 
:>> them. My latest IDE setup is:
:>> 
:>>       /dev/hda : DOS boot disk (Master), IRQ 14 (Western Digital 31000
1Gig)
:>>       /dev/hdb : CD ROM         (Slave), IRQ 14 (Sony CDU55E)
:>> 
:>>       /dev/hdc : Linux Root    (Master), IRQ 15 (Seagate ST51080A 1Gig)
:>>       /dev/hdd : Linux          (Slave), IRQ 15 (Quantum Lightning 730A)
:>> 
:>[snip..]
:>>       Thanks for your time.
:>>               Gary Whitten
:>>               whitteng@acoast.com
:>> 
:>
:>This certainly should work. I have been running RedHat 2.1 with my CD-ROM 
:>(Also a Sony CDU55E) on hdc, and Western Digital drives on hba and hdb.
:>The controller card should have little to do with it since it simply
enables
:>addressing of the real conroller in the drive. The RedHat release should
also
:>be irrelavent as both releases use the 1.2.13 kernel.


     I've read a couple of messages in the 'Caldera' (which runs on top of
RedHat v2.1) mailing list of people having trouble with similar setups.  The
'conventional wisdom' there says you want your CDROM to be the last IDE
device on the chain (which would make your CDROM 'hdd')...it may be worth a
try.

 ...Cheers,

 ...Norm