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bywateri@ee.cit.ac.nz (Richard Bywater) wrote:
>I too had a problem - The problem was due to the fact that the people who
>had sold me my computer had set the CDROM to be on the Secondary IDE
>Channel as a slave with nothing on the master.  This causes Linux to not
>be able to recognise the device when doing an ATAPI CD-Rom setup.  To
>solve this you need to open up your machine and change the jumper setting
>of the Cd-rom drive to be a Master device (that's assuming you haven't
>already got a master device on the secondary channel) - As easy as that :-)
>
>
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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.

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.


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