HD not detected

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Kerry -

Many thanks. That is very helpful. We will give it another shot
later this evening.

Chuck

On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote:

> did you connect both drives to the one ide cable?
> If so they are probably both master on the one cable
> and it is even money which the bios/os will find and won't find.
> If the second drive is on the second cable with the cdrom;
> then again you probably have the cdrom as master (hdc you did say) and the maxtor
> as master as well. Change t he cdrom to slave. this is often done
> by moving the jumper as follows:
> With the ide connector of the cdrom facing you working from right to left you
> have:
> 4-pin power connector, 40-pin ide connector master/slave jumpers mode jumpers red-book
> audio conector 4-pin.
> The master/slave jumper usually has 6 pins or mone in  a row of 2
> excuse the poor ascii art but like this:
> ***
> ***
>
> The jumper closes 2 pins and sits straight up and down. settings are
> given from the *right*
> right-most pins: drive is slave.
> middle pins: drive is master
> Left hand set of pins: drive is set to cable select.
> In summary from the right: master, slave cable select.
> This is often written on the drive as MA SL CS from the right or
> CS SL MA fromt heleft above or below the jumper block.
> Put the cdrom as slave and connect the maxtor as master to the secondary controller.
>
> Hope t hishelps.
>
> Regards, Kerry.
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 03:16:22PM -0500, 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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