HD not detected update

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Greg -

The technical details on the motherboard and disk controller are
only available via a Java script, so I don't have them right now,
but hopefully I will have them soon. Maybe I should give that
boot image a try...

Chuck

On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> Hmmmm, what kind of chipset is the controller?
> I'm asking because something like ata100.i could be in order here.
> Greg
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:10:32PM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> > Thanks for all the recommendations on the HD problem with my
> > friend's computer, most of which concentrated on the jumper
> > configuration.
> >
> > However - Tommy suggested removing the new disk and checking
> > whether the Linux installation ramdisk system can detect the
> > primary master disk, /dev/hda, and it cannot. To repeat a little,
> > the system has Windows 98 on a 12 GB disk and Windows can detect
> > the new 40 GB disk. The only reference to /dev/hdx devices in the
> > ramdisk startup messages is to a CDROM drive on /dev/hdc.
> >
> > I wonder if I should be using a different boot disk besides
> > bare.i? Any further tips would be welcome.
> >
> > Chuck
> >
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