[NTLUG:Discuss] Hardware question please

[Gilbert Morrow]

Silly question, you do have a power cable to each device, sata still
requires a power cable as well. Straight is power , L is data.
On Dec 6, 2010 5:07 PM, "Fred James" <fredjame at fredjame.cnc.net> wrote:
> Basically I have a new case, mother board and memory, and old hard
> drives, DVD/CD drive, and floppy
> The old drives are of course IDE and the new mother board supports
> 1 channel (2 devices) IDE
> 4 SATA (sata_0 sata_1 sata_2 sata_3, each to be set to master)
> 1 Floppy
>
> I have
> Linux on 2 IDE HHD
> Win98SE on 1 IDE HDD
> 1 DVD/CD
> 1 3.5 floppy drive
>
> Yesterday,
> I installed an IDE expansion card
> I hook the Linux disks to the IDE channel (master and slave) on the
> mother board
> I hook the DVD/CD and Win98 SE (master and slave) to one channel on
> the expansion card
> I hook the floppy to the mother board
> Plenty of problems, but Linux tried to boot - the complaint was it
> couldn't find hdd7 ... the light went on - didn't know anything about
> the expansion card so it couldn't see the disk or DVD/CD
>
> Today
> I removed the IDE expansion card
> I left the Linux disks to the IDE channel (master and slave) on the
> mother board
> I installed converters on the Win98SE and DVD/CD (converts IDE
> devices to SATA connections)
> I hook Win98SE to SATA_0 (master)
> I hook DVD/CD to SATA_1 (master)
> Now the box cannot find a bootable hard drive (I should note that the OS
> partition on the Win98SE disk has been wiped in preperation for a
reinstall)
>
> The board is a GA-G41M-ES2L
> The SATA cable on sata_0 has an L-shaped end that (as instructed) in
> attached to the device. The other SATA cable is straight at each end
>
> Any clues would be much appreciated
> Thanks
> Regards
> Fred James
>
>
>
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