Re: [RAID-soft,ATA,WD] problems with a RAID5 disc not detected

Barry K. Nathan (barryn@pobox.com)
Sun, 10 Feb 2002 14:24:09 -0800 (PST)

Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Blam! the BIOS refuses to detect the WD disc, unless it's the only disc on
> its ribbon cable (even with a 80-wire cable). Fortunately, Linux doesn't
> really care, and it was possible to make use of this bad boy.

Note that "Master" and "Single" are generally two different jumper
settings on WD disks; you need to use the "Master" setting when there are
two drives on the cable and the "Single" setting when there's only one...

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>
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