HD not detected

[Richard Villa]

Well,

First off, you need to make sure that the drives are set up correctly.  
The jumpers need to be configured so that the first drive is the master, 
and the second drive is the slave.
Next I would boot the machine with a dos floppy to make sure that the 
system sees both drives.
TThen you need to partition the new drive, and if you are going to want 
any dos partitions one the drive allocate and format them.

Now you should be able to do your install.

Richard

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Charles Hallenbeck 
wrote:

> I hope someone may have an explanation or a suggestion for this
> one:
> 
> My friend has a Gateway machine with Windows 98 on a 12 GB disk
> which works fine. She wants to move on up to Linux, and purchased
> a second HD, a Maxtor 40 GB disk. She knows even less about
> hardware than I do, and together we proceeded to just put the
> disk in the machine and cable it up, without even looking at its
> jumpers.
> 
> The machine now still boots fine into Windows, and Windows can
> see the second drive okay. However, Linux cannot see either the
> old drive or the new one. She is going to install Slackware 8.0
> on her second disk, but when the installation boot disk and root
> disk are run, and we have the login invitation as root, neither
> fdisk nor cfdisk can 'open' any of the four HD devices, not even
> /dev/hda.
> 
> Reviewing the boot messages for the ramdisk installation system,
> there is no mention of any HD either. It does find her CD drive
> on /dev/hdc, but no other /dev/hdx devices are found.
> 
> Anybody have any idea where to look for this problem?
> 
> Thanks - Chuck
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