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Re: Microdrive on PCM-5822

From: Carlos Mora <>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 13:44:04 -0500 (EST)

Thanks again. I will check it out when I get home. Will let 
you know what I find. I do have another MicroDrive I can 
try. I will give that a shot if this one does not work.

Carlos
> 
> Carlos Mora wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for all the info. I did get Linux installed on 20GB IDE 
> > drive over the net. I was just wondering if the MicroDrive
> > required anything special in the BIOS.
> 
> It's strange that the BIOS will not detect the microdrive when 
> you're in BIOS, yet if the HDD settings are set to "auto" in 
> the BIOS, the BIOS does auto detect the microdrive. Try setting 
> the PCM-5822 BIOS to "auto" for both the primary and secondary 
> IDE masters, then boot with the microdrive. You should see it 
> show up in the BIOS messages as an autodetected secondary master.
> Either way, I have verified that microdrive does work with the 
> PCM-5822 and that network install of redhat works fine ...
> 
>   -- Doug
> 
>   
> 

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