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| Thread ID: 47853 | 2004-08-07 08:05:00 | Secondary IDE Channel is AWOL | Growly (6) | Press F1 |
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| 259206 | 2004-08-07 08:05:00 | Hello, I have an old PII 200Mhz (the one I want to run gentoo on) - and have recently acquired some new hard drives (ran flat out from class to IT tech's room at school). Unfortunately I cannot install them. This is because recently, my secondary IDE channels stopped working. I had a CD Drive on it, then took it out, put it back, and nothing worked. I can plug something in, but it will not be recognised. Here's what I've done: - Tried several different cables that I know worked - Plugged known working devices into it, with no result - Made sure it is enabled in BIOS I don't want to give up on this thing just yet - short of fatal problems (that I can merely think of but desire not to prove) - is there anything else I could try? |
Growly (6) | ||
| 259207 | 2004-08-07 14:55:00 | Tough stuff Growly, It may be time to grab a magniying glass and examine the pins on the MOBO IDE connector, front for bent or vanished pins, and the back for possible "dry" joints. An exciting task,(not), but occasionaly rewarding. But why not put Gentoo on the good machine, and keep the low-spec machine for the low-spec O/S ;) R2 |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 259208 | 2004-08-07 16:01:00 | My thoughts too. I have not yet seen bent pins on a motherboard IDE slot yet. I have definitely seen bent pins (male) on VGA cable, Keyboard cables. When the IDE cable was pulled out I think it just may be possble that a pin may have pulled with the cable. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 259209 | 2004-08-07 22:30:00 | I have the same problem with a pentium 1 mmx (Ibm 300gl personal computer) and the primary ide channel doesnt work. |
ilikelinux (1418) | ||
| 259210 | 2004-08-07 23:37:00 | *Mumbles angrily under breath* | Growly (6) | ||
| 259211 | 2004-08-08 00:34:00 | are you sure its a p2 200 or more likly a p1 200 ??? its quite comman for the secondary ide controller not to work on socket 7 boards untill the os has been installed. check bios settings as sometimes you have to disable a few things to get it to work (werid i know). a lot of the time its easier to disable the 2ndary ide and slave the cd rom to the harddrive or use the ide connector on the sound card (which was quite comman). |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 259212 | 2004-08-08 03:26:00 | I came across a similar problem on a DEC PC3000 box. Changing disks around often left the [CD] setting in the BIOS, despite autodetecting , which didn't help using HDs where a CD had been. (I also found an extra level to go to on the "Boot" selection, too.;-) Moral: always click on everything clickable in the disk settings. There might be something hidden. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 259213 | 2004-08-08 04:57:00 | Interesting story really, DSE sold it to us as a PII, but it's a plain old pentium - I guess I still haven't let go. Well I fixed, all I had to do was pull out every PCI card, reset the bios, chuck the battery at the wall, and ram some more hard drives in. Cheers for everything :D |
Growly (6) | ||
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