On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:40:07 +0100, Ian Bell <ruffrecords@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>I have an old Celeron PC based on an Intel 815 chipset on an ATX
>motherboard. It has 2 IDE controller connectors. The primary one has a hard
>drive and CD writer connected to it. They work fine and I can dual boot
>salck and win98 from the hard drive and see the CD writer. The second IDE
>controller has another hard drive on it. The controller is enabled in bios
>and bios can see the drive. However, neither slack nor win98 can see this
>drive. What am I doing wrong?
>
>The primary hard drive is hda and the cdwriter is hdb. Presumably the
>secondary pair should be hdc and hdd respectively?

Exactly.

Can the BIOS see the devices on the secondary interface? If not,
you've connected them incorrectly.

The kernel should probe both IDE interfaces while booting and report
what is connected. What does it say? (You can review the messages with
the 'dmseg' command once the system has booted).

Best regards, Paul
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Paul Sherwin Consulting http://paulsherwin.co.uk