From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461) Description of problem: This bug was reproducable everytime. At first i thought i had a bad drive. i had my hd in hda and my cdrom in hdc. After installing i removed the cdrom and put 3 more hd's in the machine. The drive on hdc could not be used. I even tried putting a different drive there, and installing with cdrom on hdb, then the hd that would be on hdb after install wouldnt work. Eventually resolved by doing a ftp network install. When trying to mount i would get an unable to access /dev/hdc error. and when doing a fdisk /dev/hdc it would give me a floppy-ide or ide-flopy no driver found error. I cant remember it word for word the machine isnt in front of me atm. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install with cdrom on hdc 2.after install put a hd on hdc 3.try to use it Actual Results: Cant access drive Expected Results: Expected the drive to work Additional info: After installing with a network install the system worked as expected. I tried multiple installs whereever the cdrom was installed at install time i woudl be unable to install a harddrive there.
I'm glad you were able to get the network install to work. Could you give more info on what types of IDE interfaces you have, from your information so far it sounds like a hardware issue and not an installer issue, since you did get the network install to work.
The only reason I placed it under the anaconda component was that it involved a cdrom based install. The motherboard is a tyan tomcan 810ef. And it work working fine in the exact same configuration with 6.2 through 7.2. I did a clean install of 7.3 and that happened. Whereever the cdrom was at install time I was unable to put a drive there. It would detect the drive at boot as a maxtor and its model number. However when i would go to access it via fdisk or mount I recieved that error. I verified it wasnt just hdc by trying on hdb same results. And i verified it wasnt a bad drive by trying that drive in a different box as well as switchin hdd with hdc. The other drive on hdc was no longer accessable as soon as it was on the ide controller that i had the cdrom on during the install. I figured if its where the cdrom was during install I wouldnt wait for a patch and just try a network install. I was able to get the system working like normal by using the network install.
Now your system is installed can you mount the cd drive?
Now the system is up with 4 ide drives because I installed via the ftp install. When I installed with the cdrom install, I could mount a cdrom. However if i place a harddrive there instead of a cdrom i could not mount the drive.
Thanks for the feedback - I do not think this is a issue we can resolve since its related to your specific hardware.
I really dont think it is the fault of my specific hardware. If i take 6.2, 7.0 , 7.1 or a 7.2 cd set and install it works fine. It was only when i tried a clean install of 7.3 that the problem arised.