I tried to install Linux MDK 7.1 on a Gateway 2000 with a 900 MHz
Athlon. The Bios version for the Gateway is 0AA SNP05. At boot up time
the message from the Hard Disk is:
IBM DTLA-307045 Ultra DMA5
BTW, this is a 45 GB drive. During the installation process everything
goes fine until its time to set up the partitions then I get a message
stating that there are no valid hard drives in my machine. I've
installed MDK 7.1 on computers having UDMA Harddrives and assus
motherboards having UDMA 66 hardware built in and everything works
fine. So I'm surprised things don't work on the Gatewaye 2000.
I've tried changing BIOS settings but nothing seemed to work. I'm also
unsure exactly what UDMA 5 is. Has anybody seen this before? Also we
tried installing windoze 2k and had basically the same problem.
However, windoze 98 installs and works fine. Since win 2k and linux are
BIOSless OS's and win 98 uses hardware BIOSes I'm guessing this is a
BIOS issue with the harddrive but I don't know what to do besides change
to a different harddrive.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
