[NTLUG:Discuss] Hardware question please

[Gilbert Morrow]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:06 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
>
> Was going to add , check BIOS there may be a toggle to make either or both
> active .
>
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