Speaking of the devil! I have one of those cables and
a drive that is suppoesed to support it. I have been
unable to get Linux to recognize the ribbon/disk and
it always falls back to the lower standard. I know
the MB supports it. What can I check to diagnose this?
I put the drive on it's own controller. I do have a DVD 
and CDRW on another cable. Do I have to set someting on
a jumper on the HD? The MB is all configured in the BIOS.
The MB is an "older" ABit, but it has ata133 support and the
HD is a 20GB Maxtor 7200 ATA100 or ATA133. I haven't checked
the ribbon closely for cuts, but the drive works. I have another
80 ribbon I could try. Maybe there is some kernel parameter or
cheatcode I need to use?

-----Original Message-----
From:	Brian Kelsay [mailto:BLKELSAY@kcc.usda.gov]
Sent:	Tue 3/30/2004 9:28 AM
To:	kclug@kclug.org
Cc:	
Subject:	RE: kernel init error
I agree with Brian, however I have something hardware related I would check first.
Is your PC newer/newish (1Ghz on up) with an ATA100 IDE hard drive?  If so, you have an 80-wire, 
40-pin cable from hard drive to motherboard.  Those wires are very susceptible to cuts from the 
case and thence to shorting out.  They may work partially.  Check the cable on both sides and both 
edges for cuts.  If it's cut, replace the cable.