[ALUG] Re: Asus P5W DH Deluxe mainboard and IDE interfaces

[Barry Samuels]

On 16/02/07 10:15:17, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:42:57AM +0000, Barry Samuels wrote:
> >
> > On 16/02/07 08:37:00, Eur Ing Chris Green wrote:
> 
> BTW I took a look at the Asus 5W HD manual and there are a couple of
> interesting little snippets:-
> 
>     Under the JMicron IDE interface description it says "This
>     connector does not support ATAPI devices", so you can't put CD  
> (or DVD) drives on it I guess.

Yes I've seen that but it will boot and run from a Live CD on that  
interface and I have seen comments from other Linux users about trying  
to get CD/DVD drives working on that interface. So I'm not sure quite  
what it means.

>     Under the Intel IDE interface description it says "Install  
> devices on this connector (PRI_IDE) first, then install on the  
> JMicron IDE connector, ...".

The Intel interface had the DVD drive on it and the two hard drives on  
the JMicron so that should satisfy that requirement.

It would be useful if I could trace the problem to something that I had  
done. Then, at least, I would have a satisfactory explanation.

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