From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iaj4O-0005Yc-C4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:25:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8R2FnRp011352; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:15:49 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.192.81]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8R2ATQZ004144 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:10:30 GMT Received: from spore.ath.cx ([24.245.14.14]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <20070927021029m11003o1b1e>; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:10:29 +0000 Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE30114679 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:10:28 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:10:28 -0500 From: Dan Farrell To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum Message-ID: <20070926211028.6dedf892@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <1190856807.11794.59.camel@orpheus> References: <365760.62926.qm@web31709.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <1190846324.30856.18.camel@localhost> <1190854021.7659.26.camel@localhost> <1190856807.11794.59.camel@orpheus> Organization: Spore, Ltd. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.13; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 509dd3cc-cab0-41c7-aaa0-78d36b1faf72 X-Archives-Hash: f82c2775043b6e841bc0fb3278c48155 On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:03:27 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: > I have never had cable select work for me - I find it is highly > dependant on the specific IDE cable, drive, and bios combination. I > _always_ use master / slave jumpers, and don't even bother with cable > select. Even if I have only one drive, cable select has still failed > for me, resulting in no drives being detected. > > but maybe that's just me...! Actually I do that too, but as little as possible. I just put grub on the master drive and then, if i'm worried about isolating windows and linux, i can install windows normally on a seperate drive with the linux drive disabled or unplugged. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list