HD not detected

[Gregory Nowak]

First, I think the jumpers should defenetly be loooked at, and set as master and slave appropriately. Once that is done, look at cmos/bios setup, and set options for both drives there approperiately. I am also assuming here that both drives are on the same primary controller, and that the ribbon is cabled to the drives and motherboard correctly.
Greg


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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