On 10/13/05, Adrian Kiddle adrian@quinto.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Anson" tony.anson@zetnet.co.uk To: Main@lists.alug.org.uk Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 10:01 PM Subject: [ALUG] Sorry about the swearing...
Before you pass on to the next item, the Linux issue appears shortly...
I've just put a box together (AMD 900, nine hundred and mumble mumble MB
RAM).
IDE Channel 1: HD0 (master) and CD/DVD-RW (slave), cable detect IDE Channel 2: HD1 and Zip100 - both slave - not cable-detect.
I think the problem may be the 2 slaves on IDE Channel 2. I think each IDE channel needs to have one master.
Well spotted. My old Zip100 drive was very reluctant to work with any other device on an IDE channel, and, when I upgraded to a CDRW drive, I was happy to get rid of the Zip drive in exchange for a couple of bottles of beer.
Anthony> Do you really need the Zip100 drive? DVDRW is very affordable now and you get 4GB to a standard disk (which equals 40 Zip100 disks!).
Tim.