Re: [OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem (CLOSED)
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:01:34 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: I finally fudged things. I set the bios so that it recognized the cdrom and installed Debian Linux. I then rebooted, F2ed to the bios and changed it so that it could find the hard drive. That worked. Since I don't have to boot to the cdrom very often I can live with it. I'm tired of fooling with the problem. Mmm, is the CD-ROM unit still visible/accessible within the OS? If not, you can try to connect it to port IDE1 (same as the hard disk) as slave, that could make a difference (buy a longer IDE cable if the devices are separated enough) or extract the optical unit and use it with an external USB case. Yes, the cd unit is visible within the OS. Everything is working fine. I installed an additional drive on the same IDE port as a slave. With ATA/IDE Configure set to Legacy the bios recognizes both drives but not the CDROM. Just as before. Once booted, everything works fine. It's indeed weird, but at least now you know a slave unit conneted to the master IDE port is also detected and thus you can use it to boot from there, should needed. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jm40to$3l4$3...@dough.gmane.org
Re: Re: [OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem (CLOSED)
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: El 2012-04-08 a las 20:26 -0700, Gary Roach escribió: (resending to the list) On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:41:08 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am switching over to Linux from win2k. The system has had a glitch for a long time in that it fails to boot the first time I try. The reason is that it can't find the WD600BB, 60 GB hard drive. A second try usually fixed the problem. It has an Intel D865PERL mother board, a P4 2.4 GHZ processor and 512 MB DDR 400 ram. I just upgraded the BIOS to the latest version. (...) A quick Google search points to a known problem for that board: http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0hl=en#hl=encomplete=0site=webhpq=Intel+D865PERL+hard+disk+bootoq=Intel+D865PERL+hard+disk+bootaq=faqi=aql=gs_l=serp.3...2893l5210l0l5434l0l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0.pfwc.bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osbfp=43704773c80105b2biw=1280bih=888 For example: http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f15/intel-d865perl-wont-boot-sometimes-25259.html I would contact Intel tech support and ask them for a fix to this. I finally fudged things. I set the bios so that it recognized the cdrom and installed Debian Linux. I then rebooted, F2ed to the bios and changed it so that it could find the hard drive. That worked. Since I don't have to boot to the cdrom very often I can live with it. I'm tired of fooling with the problem. Gary R. Mmm, is the CD-ROM unit still visible/accessible within the OS? If not, you can try to connect it to port IDE1 (same as the hard disk) as slave, that could make a difference (buy a longer IDE cable if the devices are separated enough) or extract the optical unit and use it with an external USB case. Greetings, Yes, the cd unit is visible within the OS. Everything is working fine. I installed an additional drive on the same IDE port as a slave. With ATA/IDE Configure set to Legacy the bios recognizes both drives but not the CDROM. Just as before. Once booted, everything works fine. Bye Gary R. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f84c9de.3030...@verizon.net
Re: [OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem (CLOSED)
El 2012-04-08 a las 20:26 -0700, Gary Roach escribió: (resending to the list) On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:41:08 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am switching over to Linux from win2k. The system has had a glitch for a long time in that it fails to boot the first time I try. The reason is that it can't find the WD600BB, 60 GB hard drive. A second try usually fixed the problem. It has an Intel D865PERL mother board, a P4 2.4 GHZ processor and 512 MB DDR 400 ram. I just upgraded the BIOS to the latest version. (...) A quick Google search points to a known problem for that board: http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0hl=en#hl=encomplete=0site=webhpq=Intel+D865PERL+hard+disk+bootoq=Intel+D865PERL+hard+disk+bootaq=faqi=aql=gs_l=serp.3...2893l5210l0l5434l0l0l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0.pfwc.bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osbfp=43704773c80105b2biw=1280bih=888 For example: http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f15/intel-d865perl-wont-boot-sometimes-25259.html I would contact Intel tech support and ask them for a fix to this. I finally fudged things. I set the bios so that it recognized the cdrom and installed Debian Linux. I then rebooted, F2ed to the bios and changed it so that it could find the hard drive. That worked. Since I don't have to boot to the cdrom very often I can live with it. I'm tired of fooling with the problem. Gary R. Mmm, is the CD-ROM unit still visible/accessible within the OS? If not, you can try to connect it to port IDE1 (same as the hard disk) as slave, that could make a difference (buy a longer IDE cable if the devices are separated enough) or extract the optical unit and use it with an external USB case. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120409142319.gc7...@stt008.linux.site
