[ILUG] [slightly - OT] Hardware problems..

[Dunphy Richard-rdunph01]

Actually it's all working ok now....

In my desperation yesterday I completely stripped the machine down and built it up again. Something must have been loose or badly connected, because once I had everything together it worked fine.

I say that - but still having problems getting the Sound card to work. Anyone got a CT5880 built in sound card working with Alsa?

I tracked down the hole in the cable which is ok since it only comes into action when there is a slave drive present, and also controles the HDD LED. Must get a new one anyways. Was planning one of those nice round ones... Any one know if you can get round SCSI cables with the connectors for CD-ROMS???

Thanks to everyone for your help anyway.

RikD.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Baldwin_James at emc.com [mailto:Baldwin_James at emc.com]
> Sent: 15 April 2002 08:09
> To: Richard Dunphy; ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: RE: [ILUG] [slightly - OT] Hardware problems..
> 
> 
> To me,
> 
> Looks like the dodgy Redmond CD was the entire issue.  El 
> torrito on a SCSI
> CDROM(SCSI CDROM is bootable by controller default) initiates 
> well before
> the IDE bootstrap regardless of BIOS bootup priority.  So for 
> example, if
> you have a boot sequence of FLOPPY, IDE, CDROM, it will be 
> overridden by a
> bootable CD in a SCSI CDROM.  Only way this doesnt happen is 
> if your SCSI
> Controller doesnt have a BIOS or you turnoff bootable LUNs.
> 
> J.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dunphy Richard-rdunph01 [mailto:Rik.Dunphy at motorola.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 10:12 PM
> To: Irish Linux UG (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: [ILUG] [slightly - OT] Hardware problems..
> 
> 
> > Try testing the system with the SCSI card out of the system 
> so that it
> > either boots from IDE0 or the Floppy. I think I saw 
> something similar
> > with an Iwill SCSI adaptor last year. As far as I remember, it was a
> > boot conflict (as both the IDE and the SCSI expected to be 
> > booted first
> > (even with the BIOS set)) that stopped the machine from 
> > booting but I'd
> > have to check.
> 
> Unfortunately if I take the SCSI card out then I have no 
> CD/DVD device to
> install stuff with.
> 
> Anyway - I now have the harddrive working - it's just getting SuSE to
> install.
> 
> RikD.
> 
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