Comment 29 for bug 222322

Thanks Chuck. Spot on. The cable end that typically goes in the controller was
in the CD drive, with the center connector in the controller, and the short
lead to the hard drive. The jumpers were correct.

I relocated the hard drive to be near the CD drive, and with the two
connectors that are close to each other, connected one in the CD drive and one
in the hard drive, with the long lead going to the controller on the
motherboard.

Other than relocate the hard drive, the only thing I did was change the IDE
cable around, and it is now working fine.

Once again, thanks Chuck, well spotted.

The only last comment I have, is that older versions of Linux handle the
reversed connection of the IDE cable, and for the less technically competent
user than I, they may find swapping around an IDE cable outside their
abilities. Basically for the average home user, they would be unable to
resolve this problem, and for some users, unable to install Fedora Core 8.
Therefore I encourage that this bug report remain open, until a fix to the
kernel/libata is made to make it more tolerant of cabling.