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Mark White (markw@coral.cs.jcu.edu.au) wrote:
: Hi--

: I've got two IDE HDDs: a Maxtor 7213A (213MB) and a Seagate ST114A (124MB)
: which I would like to install correctly into my PC, perferably the Seagate
: as the C: and the Maxtor as the D:.  The Seagate was pinched from an old
: 386SX, the Maxtor was (until recently) the only HDD in my 486DX/33.

: My problem is this-- I'm unable to boot from the Maxtor, even when it's the
: C drive, and configured correctly in the computer's CMOS settings.  I can
: boot of either a DOS or Linux floppy, and use the drive with no problems.
: I had created a small, bootable DOS partition on this drive (format /s C:)
: prior to (sucessfully) installing Linux, and was unable to boot from the C
: drive.

OK.  First thing to do, is use the linux fdisk to partition and set up 
the disk drive.  Make all of your partitions with linux, this saves DOS 
stuffing it all up.  You should do this with just the drive you want to 
boot from in the machine set up as a single drive (see jumper settings 
later).

Once you have set up  your three partitions (1 Linux, 1 DOS, 1 Linux Swap 
(in any order)) You should install linux on the linux drive.  Once that 
is complete and you have set up lilo to boot to linux, reboot the machine 
and load DOS from your origional boot disks.  The DOS setup will look at 
the drive and see the partition which you have made for it.  Once DOS is 
setup, go back to linux through lilo and edit your lilo.conf to allow 
booting to either dos or linux, and then run the lilo install to 
reinstall lilo in the boot sector.  You should now be able to boot to 
either OS from lilo.  (if you are unsure on lilo setup, talk to your 
local linux guru or mail me and I will try to help.  I give this info, 
because this is how I set up a similar config.)  Once you have got this 
far, the next bit is easy.

Set up your two drives as master slave.  The setting for each drive are 
below.

Maxtor 7213AT - Single drive - 	JP1   	pins 9 & 10 closed
		Master Drive -		pins 9 & 10 closed
		Slave Drive  -		pins 9 & 10 open

Seagate 1144A	Single Drive -	JB1	pins 3 & 4 and 5 & 6 open  
		Master Drive		pins 3 & 4 closed 5 & 6 open
		Slave Drive		pins 3 & 4 and 5 & 6 closed

These settings are not the exact models, but are as close as I could come 
to the info you gave me.

Anyway, if both drives are good and tested, the only problme can now be 
in the M/S setup.  If all else fails try doing a FDISK /MBR from DOS, 
booting to linux from a boot disk and installing lilo again.

Any other problems, email me.

James.

James Turner - Director
Cornerstone Computers
1 / 48 Winton Road,
Joondalup, WA, 6027
Phone : (09) 300 3377
Fax :	(09) 300 3378
email : jturner@iinet.com.au
	

: However, when I reinstall the Maxtor drive, change the CMOS it boots up OK.
: The Seagate came from another machine where it was booting OK.

: Could there be a jumper setting that I've missed here?  Can anyone supply
: me with the jumper settings for either of these drives?

: Thanks in advance,

: --
: Mark White                                         <markw@cs.jcu.edu.au>
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