Mysterious invisible hard drive
Andreas Bauer
baueran at in.tum.de
Tue May 21 03:37:48 EST 2002
> I'm having (another) weird problem. I recently got a hand on a used
> 10Gig Hard-disk which has a win98 installation on it. OK, so I plug it
> in. During the start-up messages to Mandrake Linux it detects it as hdg
> so I know it's plugged in. However *nothing* can seem to detect this
> hard-drive. Bios - zilch. I have a dual boot system. I boot into
> Windows and it can't see it (in fact Windows won't even boot with it
> plugged in). I use a Windows boot disk and the boot disk hangs.
> Mandrake's disk partitioning tools can't see hdg. I tried booting using
> the Mandrake installation CD to use the partitioning tool during the
> installation and then just exit out of the installation. The result:
> the install CD hangs while booting up trying to detect this hdg disk.
> And I know this disk is not broken because I saw the machine it was
> orginally in boot up to Windows 5 minutes before I removed the disk and
> put it in my machine.
Not really a Linux related question, but anyway: my humble assumption
is that you have not set the Jumpers on the back of your disk correctly.
Make sure one is a Master, the other a Slave (or adjust to Cable-Select,
if you must).
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(o_ Andreas Bauer, baueran at in.tum.de, http://home.in.tum.de/baueran/
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