Locked up again! What can I check- I'm on another box

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 19:23 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 18/06/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 20:01 +0200, nigel henry wrote:
> > > If you have 2 drives, jumpered as master and slaves, the master drive
> > > is connected to the middle connector on the ribbon cable, and the
> > > slave drive uses the connector at the end of the ribbon.
> >
> > *IF* you are using cable-select cables, where the position of the drive
> > selects which is master and slave (and you have the drive jumpered to
> > work in cable-select mode), the end connector is the master.
> >
> > If you have manually set your drives as master and slave, then it does
> > not matter where you have it connected.  Anybody who thinks otherwise is
> > falling victim to the placebo effect.
> >
> 
> No, I set them to master and slave. I'd love to see this documented
> somewhere reliable. Googling found nothing that I would consider
> reliable.

Goto the venerable Western Digital site and check out the installation
docs. They explain generic drive jumper settings for master / slave vs
cable select. Linux seems to like the master / slave setting and the
drive connected with the appropriate corresponding ribbon connector. Set
anyway else, expect problems.