[mythtv-users] Knoppmyth just plain not working.

Steve Dorsey info at dorseygraphics.com
Mon Feb 20 23:45:33 UTC 2006


This mobo only has 1 ide connector.


On Feb 20, 2006, at 3:42 PM, yan seiner wrote:

> Steve Dorsey wrote:
>
>>
>>   I have my CD ROM drive as master, and the hard drive as slave on
>> the same bus. No other drives on the machine at all.
>>
>>
> This is *bad*.
>
> a) *never* share the same IDE bus unless a bunch of headhunters  
> threaten
> to shrink your head, especially not between a disk and non-disk  
> (cdrom,
> tape, etc) device.
>
> b) *never* make your CDROM master unless it is the only device on  
> the bus.
>
> c) *always* make your primary drive the master on IDE0.
>
> a) should always be followed for hardware and performance reasons.
>
> b) and c) are pretty much by convention; software expects things to be
> in certain places.
>
> So, identify the IDE0 connector and plug the harddrive into it,
> configured as master.  (usually blue on modern mobos).
>
> Identify the IDE1 connector and plug the CDROM into it, configured as
> master.
>
> Now try it again.  And may the force be with you.
>
> --Yan
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