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September 18, 2005 10:24 AM

jfgoofy said:

I just got instantcake 6.2 for my Hughs series 2 running 6.2-01-2-151. I also got two new Western Digital HDD's. The first is a 160GB WD1600JB and the second is a 300GB Wester Digital WD300JB using CS connected to a Dell GX300 dual 1.2GHz with 8GB ram.

I launch instantcake and it starts the uncopressing process. On the 160GB HDD it gets to 744MB coppied then the compression status bounces around (i.e. 100%, 211100%, 3000%, etc.). I let it run all night and it never completed.

The same happens to the 300GB HDD only it gets to 33MB coppied.

I have tried using them together and alone using master, master slave, and cs settings.

I feel like an idiot enought (cause it shouldnt be this hard) so if you dont mind only helpful commnets. If i missed some thing in the instructions im sorry about that. But, I have read them and searched the forums.

It is soundling like you may not be following the instructions in full? Specifically, you should be connecting your CDROM as the primary slave, and your new drives as secondary master and slave.

For answers to commonly asked questions, please refer to the
InstantCake Instructions and Release Notes,
Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
Official PTVnet Discussion Thread

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September 18, 2005 10:31 AM

Yes, I understand that. And that is the way they are connected. I just wanted those who replied to understand that I did try some other things. Not that I didnt follow the instructions.

So, the configuration right now is the following:

Primary Drive 0 - CD ROM
Primary Drive 1 - OFF (And no drive connected)

Secondary Drive 0 - Maxtor 1600GB (The bios does see this as 160GB)
Secondary Drive 1 - OFF (And no drive connected)

Lou Jacob

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September 18, 2005 10:37 AM

jfgoofy said:

Yes, I understand that. And that is the way they are connected. I just wanted those who replied to understand that I did try some other things. Not that I didnt follow the instructions.

So, the configuration right now is the following:

Primary Drive 0 - CD ROM
Primary Drive 1 - OFF (And no drive connected)

Secondary Drive 0 - Maxtor 1600GB (The bios does see this as 160GB)
Secondary Drive 1 - OFF (And no drive connected)

Once again, your CD-ROM should be the primary slave, NOT the primary master.

For answers to commonly asked questions, please refer to the
InstantCake Instructions and Release Notes,
Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
Official PTVnet Discussion Thread

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September 18, 2005 10:54 AM

Okay,,,, I fail to see why that would make a difference, the application launches and it boots fine, and starts the process. Is there some thing in the script that address the hardware directly in that configuration??????

So now, i have configured them machine this way.

Primary drive 0 - Segate 40GB (I had to put this drive on cause the machine would not recoginize only a slave cdrom). BUT IT IS TURNED OFF (I will turn it on if you think it makes a difference)

Primary drive 1 - cdrom

secondary drive 0 - maxtor 1600
secondary drive 1 - NO Drive and OFF

The CD launches, gets to 153MB and It stops. Put the 300GB in the same configurtion and it gets to 33MB and it stops.

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September 18, 2005 11:02 AM

I tried it with both the primary HDD on and off. Either way it made no difference and I get the same result. But, either way the CDROM is now the Primary SLAVE. :-)

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September 18, 2005 11:56 AM

As it turns out, it wasnt the configuration or the computer. The ISO image I burned seems to have a flaw. I was just thinking of ways to fix this and decided to reburn the ISO image to a new CD and now its done. BTW - I did have the CDROM connected as Pirmary Drive 0 and it still worked. I was just currious about that fact, so I did it twice. Once as Drive 0 and Once as Drive 1...... And either way it worked.

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