HD not detected update

[Charles Hallenbeck]

I bet you are right... I just got the specs on the motherboard
and the original HD in the system, so I will check those out to
see if it still looks promising. The readme.txt in the
bootdsks.144 directory also looks promising for that particular
boot image.

Thanks - Chuck

On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> 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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