[NTLUG:Discuss] Hardware question please

[Daniel Hauck]

One problem I have experienced with those types of boards is that in the
BIOS you have to configure things in particular ways. While technically,
it should be possible to utilize ALL drive channels, only certain
combinations and modes will work. Typically, for Win98SE for example,
you will likely have to either run the drive in IDE mode if it's SATA or
ensure that your other drives on SATA are running in their "native" mode
if you want to have any sort of access to the SATA channels while
running Win98SE.

I also encountered drive problems similar to the one you describe when I
was running just Linux. The BIOS wanted to tell the OS that things are
one way while the Linux kernel decided it should be a different way.

Keep playing with the combinations and modes and I am sure you will end
up with something that works. What I ended up doing was disabling the
IDE channel entirely and getting a SATA to IDE converter so I could
access my old DVD writer on the SATA channel. It was about the only way
I could get everything I wanted out of the configuration.


On 12/06/2010 06:06 PM, Fred James 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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