sd wrote:

>> grub can be thought of as a separate mini OS. Its purpose is to act as
>> the loader for other OSs. It uses its own nomenclature for drives and
>> partitions which is unique to itself.
>>
>> Are you sure the BIOS isn't telling you that IDE drives are using _UDMA_,
>> not UMDA. UDMA is ultra DMA.
>>
>> Question 1: Did you modify your BIOS settings after you installed Ubuntu?
>>
>> You may be up against a bit of project to get your system working again.
>> You may need to do some homework now, if you omitted this step
>> previously. It is important not to panic, though.
>>
>
> Oops.. the second IDE drive shows up on BIOS as UDMA [you're right -
> it's not UMDA - I must have had too much coffee when I wrote last].
>
> When I saw that the primary slave was off, I turned it on on BIOS. It
> didn't do any magic. So I turned it back off. So the BIOS setting is
> exactly as it was before I installed ubuntu.
>
> Please advise on what homework needs to be done. I can't wait to get my
> system back up.
>
> -sd

I give up: where is the second hard drive connected? On the same ribbon
cable as the other HD? On some other ribbon cable, perhaps plugged into
a UDMA controller in a PCI slot? Can't tell from over here. Help me.

Roby