[Gllug] [OT] Hardware problem

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 10:28 +0000, Iain M Conochie wrote:
> Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > <snip>
> >   
> 
> > The bad news is that, having bought a high spec Mobo (Asus P7H55-M Pro)
> > for them, it seems unwilling to recognise their old 200G IDE (PATA)
> > disk, though it will recognise the DVD drive on the same cable.
> >   
> 
> Have you tried the disk on the cable by itself? Most new machines expect 
> only one drive on the PATA cables, and also usually expect it to be a CD 
> / DVD ROM device. There may be BIOS features to turn off this annoyance 
> but I have not reaaly found any
> 
Thanks for all the help guys.

It was a cable/jumper problem. As is suggested above the mobo was rather
more pernickety about this sort of thing that the old socket 478 job it
was replacing.

Now I have installed Ubuntu on the box but it freezes when I do more or
less anything in X. I fear I am in for a long evening tomorrow as I
struggle to get the thing working. Oh well

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