Sounds like you are fine with setting it up as the Master driver. The problem
you are encountering is with your boot order. You need to go into the bios and
tell it to boot to SCSI or external controller first instead of IDE. If you
didn't have an IDE drive before and just put one in, then that would most likely
be the situation.
Pace
> I am trying to install an Maxtor Diamond Max Plus Ultra ATA/133 80 GB
> ide hard drive in my IBM Netfinity 3000. If I set it up as a master the
> bios will recognize it and let me set it up but when the system boots it
> bypasses all the scsi drives and says there is not boot drive available.
> It is trying to boot from the ide drive and not from the scsi drive
> where the boot drive is located.
>
> If I use it as a slave, the bios does not see it at all and I cannot set
> it up. And Linux does not see the 'hda' drive either from fdisk.
>
> OK I give up,,,, I am no A+ guy.
>
> Michael C. Rock
> Systems Analyst
> Registered Linux User # 287973
>
> "The time has come the walrus said to speak of many things,,,"
> "Christians give up what they cannot keep to gain what they cannot lose"
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