[LUGSB] IDE weirdness

[Aaron Pellman-Isaacs]

Is it possible that the new drive is bad?
Assuming it's not, the best way of seeing which component is the screwy one 
is to swap stuff out (the drives, and IDE cabel for ex).
Also, is it not detecting it in the OS or at boot?
If its in the OS than its not a hardware problem most likely.




>From: Akshat Aranya <aaranya at ic.sunysb.edu>
>Reply-To: Linux Users Group at Stony Brook 
<lugsb at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
>To: fsl at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu
>CC: lugsb at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu
>Subject: [LUGSB] IDE weirdness
>Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:52:49 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
>Hi,
>
>A friend of mine is having problems with IDE disks.  The computer
>has two IDE disks on one controller.  No matter what master/slave
>configuration I choose, both the drives are not detected at the same
>time.  The computer was working fine until one of the drives went
>bad and was replaced with an identical new drive.  Could this be a
>problem with the controller, the IDE cable, or maybe some kind of
>configuration that I am getting wrong?
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Akshat
>
>P.S.: Sorry for posting a non-Linux query on LUGSB, but I figured
>that there are plenty of people who have more experience dealing
>with hardware than I do.
>
>
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