I had a problem very similar to yours, caused by how the hard drives were set up. For me, Fedora would boot just fine. It would run for hours, sometimes a day, and then lock up, usually during disk activity. To top that off, I saw a CD and DVD on the desktop, even though I only had a single DVD ROM (and no CD ROM) connected. When I would click on either one, the system would lock up.
Here's my setup, and how I fixed it. On the primary IDE controller, I had the drives set to master and slave. On the secondary, the drive was set to 'cable select'. It was the master, and only drive, on that controller. These same drives worked just fine set as 'cable select' in the past, when I had one HD on one controller and one CD on the other.
The fix was to set the drive on the secondary IDE controller to 'master' instead of 'cable select'. What is interesting is that the phantom CD has disappeared, and the DVD only shows now when there is something in the drive. In addition, the lock-ups have disappeared. I'm not completely sure if this issue was completely hardware, or mostly software, because I upgraded to FC3 AND changed some hardware around at the same time. (I know, bad idea).
I hope this helps!
Randy
At 07:21 PM 11/22/2004, you wrote:
I don't know if anybody still cares about this problem, but I guess Fedora is off the hook. For those of you playing along at home, my machine has two hard drives, both masters on their respective IDE controllers, hda and hdc, and one CD-ROM, slave on the second port. The system worked fine for
