Re: How to connect four edi devices?

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The following is additional info pertaining to the subject problem.
> > What is the correct way to connect four edi devices?
> > I have an older computer that has a 20-gig hard drive,
> > an older cd burner and a recent dvd player and I want
> > to add an older 6.4-gig hard drive.

Now, having the four drives connected as previously described,
when I try to boot up, I see the following screen messages:

AMD Duron 1100 Mhz 
Pri Master VAM51J Maxtor 2F020Lo
     Ultra DMA Mode 5 - S.M.A.R.T. Capable but disabled 

(I have also tried setting SMART as enabled.)

AMBIOS Setup shows this:

Prim Master - User 20848 MB 
Prim Slave  -  CD-Rom       (But this is not true.)
Sec Master  - Not Installed (But this is not true.)
Sec Slave   - Not Installed (But this is not true.)

The Second HD *is* installed as the primary slave with
the IDE cable connected from IDE-1 on the mother board
to the original 20-gig Maxtor HD at the end of the cable
and the 6.4-gig Western Digital HD connected to the middle
of the cable.

Furthermore, the two CD drives (a DVD and a CD-writer)
connected from IDE-2 on the mother board on the same cable.

No matter how I reconfigure bios, I always see the same messages:

Prim Slave Drive - ATAPI incompatible
Press F1 to resume.

But this makes no sense because when I boot up with either
WinXP or Xandros Linux on the two-partition 20-gig HD, from
either operating system, I can read the contents of the 6.4-gig
drive.

While I did not make any changes in the boot loader (and I don't
know if it is grub or lilo), after connecting the 6.4-gig HD,
the boot loader added two items to the list of options that were
not previously there, neither of which work. This is what the
Xandros boot loader splash screen shows:

1. Xandros (WinXP used to be the first options) -- Xandros boots fine.
2. Safe Video mode
3. Configure (Expert)
4. Windows XP (it boots fine)
5. Red Hat Linux (This was *not* on the original Xandros boot screen)
... and it does not boot. There was a Red Hat Linux partition on
the 6.4-gig HD that I am trying to use on this system.
6. Linux Mandrake (This also was *not* on the original Xandros boot)
... and it does not work. This is especially strange because
there has never been a Mandrake Linux installation on either HD.

This is a great mystery!

My objective is to reformat the 6.4-gig drive, install PCLinuxOS
on it and triple boot with PCLinuxOS in the first (default) position,
XP second, and Xandros third.

What do I need to do to get the system to boot from any Linux "live" CD?


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