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

[Eur Ing Chris Green]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 11:47:58AM +0000, Barry Samuels wrote:
> 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.
> 
The JMicron IDE has a CD/DVD drive on my Abit board and works OK so,
as you say, one does wonder what they mean.

On my Abit the *Intel* interface BIOS pops up a message saying that
the AHCI mode works only for disk drives and not for CD drives, maybe
there's something like that in the mix somewhere.


> >    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.
> 
Maybe it wanted *two* devices on the Intel interface first so it was
'full'.   Clutching at straws though!  :-)

> 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.
> 
Yes, I understand that, it would give you a bit of confidence that you
won't fall down the same hole again.

-- 
Chris Green