HD not detected

[Shaun Oliver]

ah ok I didn't realize you needed special cables for cable sellect.
oh well, we live and learn.
On Sat,
19 Jan 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote:

> Cabel select requires special cables
> and you just can't set everything to cable select and expect everything to work all the time.
> Many a dodgey techniton has done this and learnt the error of their ways.
> Cable select uses a signal on the cable and it depends which port the drive is pougged into as to whether it is
> master or slave.
>
> Regards, Kerry.
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 02:33:47PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> > ok chuck first and foremost you must once you've put a new drive in the
> > machine, always check the bios to ensure that all drives are being
> > detected.
> > a good way to ensure that your drives are always seen is to set them all
> > to auto detect and possibly move the jumper to cable sellect.
> > the bios if it's recent enough should just pick up the fact that there's
> > a drive there and assign it according to it's ide channel.
> > hth
> > 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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Shaun Oliver

Marriage is a three ring circus:
engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
                -- Roger Price

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