[Gllug] UDMA drives, promise controller card and the BIOS

[Jonathan Dye]

Not sure if it helps but I had a hard drive that had three jumper settings,
Slave, Master with slave and Master without slave.  If it was in Master
with slave mode it wouldn't work without a slave on the cable.

JD

At 15:05 11/10/01 +0100, you wrote:
>This isn't strictly a Linux question but is Linux related as I was hoping to
>install a nice new bright and shiny IBM deskstar UDMA100 disk drive into my
>'puter today for Linux and Suse 7.3, but I'm having some problems.
>
>My PC is a Gateway 550, Phoenix BIOS 4.0 Release 6.0. There is a Promise
>Ultra 66 controller card and two hard drives, both connected to the first
>port of the promise card. The master drive is winbloze; the secondary drive
>is Linux. I use LILO on the master drive as the boot controller.
>
>Now, when I disconnect the secondary drive, the PC boots up, a message
>saying that the Ultra 66 controller is scanning the IDE bus appears after
>which another message appears saying that the Ultra 66 BIOS is not loaded,
>and consequently the dreaded "Operating system not found" message.
>Reconnecting the secondary drive and rebooting puts the PC back to normal.
>
>I want to put my new Linux drive on the second port of the controller card,
>as a master drive. Of course, I could keep the existing secondary drive, and
>format it as a winbloze data partition, but I'd intended selling it to my
>work :)
>
>I don't know why the master drive appears to have some sort of dependency on
>the secondary drive. Is it LILO-related?
>
>Any idea what's going on?
>
>Cheers,
>Peter
>
>
>
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