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hawkesm@luna.co.uk (Mark Hawkes) wrote:

>Me too! I also have the 4xspeed Mitsumi CD drive. But sadly I think the
>antidote will have no effect on this poor sinner...

>I.E.

>If the only way of getting round the problem is by switching the jumper
>from SLAVE to MASTER, then it's not a method that can help me: I have a
>420mb hard disk on my secondary-master channel, so my CD drive MUST
>therefore reside on the secondary setting. Both my primary AND secondary
>channels have hard disks occupying the master setting - all that's
>available is the SLAVE.

I have a Mitsumi FX400 jumpered and cabled as slave to a WD AC31200 HDD on
the primary channel of my CMD640 EIDE controller. It works fine. Well, as
fine as a buggy controller works, at least... :S

Check both your HDD and your CD are jumpered correctly and check that the
HDDs are fully EIDE compliant. Some 'EIDE' drives aren't.

Also, you could try not jumpering the CD at all. I've come across a Goldstar
CD that needed to be set up like this just to boot - gawd knows how it
(won't) run Linux if we tried!

>So, if I'm right, the only viable alternative is for me to carve up a
>partition on one of my hard disks and use that as the source for the Linux
>installation (Slackware distribution). Am I right??? Please help.

That'll work too - that's how I bootstrapped my installation before I knew
my buggy EIDE controller was the reason I couldn't install sucessfully from
CD-ROM.

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>   mArK hAwKeS

Regards,
Alex.
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