> Why didn't you leave the drive as HDD and then set the setting for 2nd
> Primary to None in the BIOS?
I don't see a setting for this in the BIOS.
This is a 1996? IBM P90.
> This would speed up the initialisation, without messing with the
> jumpers.
I'll have another look.
> dmesg will display the boot messages.
But not all of them I think.
> What speed, make and model is the CDROM drive?
I'm not with the machine right now but I think Panasonic 2x. Old.
> I used to have an old cdrom drive (a good few years back now) which
> refused to work as master on any IDE channel. It had to be a slave. I
> think it was an old 6x drive.
Interesting. More digging. Can you have an IDE channel with only a slave
and no master?
///Peter
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