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 > > *<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>*<<<=-=>>>* > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > The Moon is Waxing Crescent (24% of Full) > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Shaun Oliver Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. -- Roger Price Email: shauno at goanna.net.au Icq: 76958435
