Thanks guys for the in depth knowledge of ide drives, I had no idea it made that much difference myself but then I guess that is why I am having problems. To throw some more information on the fault, as I said I ended up using my spare test drive with FC6, this has been a trooper and allows me to keep working. I decided to plug the troublesome drive into IDE1 as master, no other drives were connected and I had the same issues thus I thought proving the drive was playing up, but then I had the Idea of adding it as a master of IDE2 and using the test drive as the master IDE1, everything seems fine, I can mount the troublesome drive and see the data, I can even read and write to it???? Does this mean my IDE1 controller is at fault?? if so I guess it must be related to the chipsset / drive make? On 21/11/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tuesday 21 November 2006 09:41, Tim wrote: >Tim: >>> IDE/ATA doesn't use termination, SCSI does. > >Mel: >> I don't believe that is true. I believe they both use termination. > >While from a technical standpoint, there's a standard impedance that >loads the line, so it is "terminated". There's nothing the user does to >the drive that changes it. So I should have said it doesn't have any >user-set termination options. > >Electrically, it doesn't matter whether the master or slave is at the >end of the line. Neither's different in that regard. Yes it does, only the drive jumpered as a slave has this turned off. For that reason it should always be on the middle connector, with the drive set as master on the end. Yeah you can set it up bass-ackwards. And I'll say we told you so when your data gets fubared. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
