HD not detected update

Gregory Nowak gnowak1 at uic.edu
Sat Jan 19 16:15:34 EST 2002


I would recommend trying the boot image I mentioned earlier. From reading a couple of your other posts, I am begining to think it might work.
Greg


On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 04:03:56PM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> 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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