Core 4 Install Problems

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 14:16 -0800, Albert A. Hocking III wrote:
> Ok, inadvertently I maybe answering my own question...But at the same
> time, I'm still unsure of the solution....
>  
> When I told you the drives attached, I took them in order from the way
> that I think that there on the bus:
>  
> Board IDE & Raid:
> Samsung SV4002H 40 Gig
> 
> Maxtor 96147H8 60 Gig
> 
> Maxtor 4G160J8 160 Gig
> 
>  
> 
> PCI IDE Card 1:
> 
> Sony DVD DDU220E
> 
> Memorex DVD16+/-DL4RWND2
> 
>  
> 
> PCI IDE Card 2:
> 
> Quantum 4 Gig TM3840A
> 
> Seagate ST329OA
> 
>  
> 
> SCSI:
> 
> NEC CDROM 465 SCSI
> 
> Sony CDRW CRX14SS SCSI
> 
>  
> 
> Well, the utility that you showed me would be good if I had a smaller
> system, but from what I see it only installs for the controllers on
> the board......

Actually for things the BIOS sees.  If you were to disable the
board-based IDE and enable the BIOS on the plug-in cards, it'd work.

> I have these controllers in this order with the drives because of the
> distance of the cables. It would be nice to have the CD's on the board
> but they are low on the case so I put them on the PCI IDE's.......

IDE cables are good for a meter (a little over 3 feet), provided they're
good cables.  What the heck kind of machine is this...a VAX? :-)  I've
never seen a desktop box that needed more than a meter of cable for
ANYTHING inside it.

> So is that what needs to be done?........Put the IDE ROM's on the
> board?

Wait...this isn't clear.  Typically, if you have an IDE RAID1, the
two drives on the IDE controller can ONLY be set up in the RAID.  The
controller is either in RAID mode or it isn't--you can't have it both
ways.

The simplest thing is to put the CDs on your secondary IDE controller.

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