How to connect four edi devices?

[Josef Lowder]

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On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:54:41 -0700, Eric \"Shubes\" wrote
Joe Lowder wrote: 
> > I've tried dozens of combinations, including 'auto'
> > but nothing I have tried will get bios to see *anything* 
> > on the second ide channel.  No HD, no CD, nothing. 
> > 
> > One might conclude that the second ide channel on the mother board
> > is defective ... except I am able to read the contents of anything 
> > connected on that second channel after booting up. 
> > 
> > So, I wonder if the bios might be defective? 
> 
> I'm under the impression that some older BIOSes are unable to boot 
> from the secondary IDE channel. This may or may not be correct, so 
> don't "take it as gospel". ;)
> -- Eric 'shubes'

Thanks Eric.  That surely must be the answer 
... at least to part of my current dilemma.

Ironic that I can write to a drive on the second ide channel 
even though bios doesn't see it.  But I could not figure out 
how to get the installation on the second hard drive to boot.

After installing PCLinuxOS on the second drive and using its 
installation boot loader, I can no longer boot either XP or 
Xandros.  I've tried both Grub and Lilo and neither can see it
so I can no longer boot either XP or Xandros. 

Guess I'll have to forgo the Xandros installation that was on 
the second partition of the first drive.  So, I am now moving 
(copying) some key files from that Xandros install to the 
second drive and I'll try to install PCLinuxOS on the second 
partition of the first IDE channel and hope that will make 
one or the other of the boot loaders work. 

Very frustrating.