HD not detected

[Gregory Nowak]

Why would you expect a DOS floppy to see the drives if Linux does not?
Greg


On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 03:59:04PM -0600, Richard Villa wrote:
> 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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