On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Felix Miata wrote: > Rob Blomquist wrote: > > > The box is running RH 7.1, so you can see that its been up for awhile. > > > The drives on the box are an 850 Mb drive, Make and Model Unknown, a Maxtor 15 > > Gb disk, and a CD-ROM. > > > The 850 is the bootable disk containing the OS, the other 2 drives are mounted > > to that disk, so the 80 Gb would not have to be booted. > > > I am currently uploading Knoppix (why did I ever delete that iso?), and I will > > try running it and see what happens if the BIOS is set to not show the drive. > > Any modern Linux will see 850MB, 15GB, & 80GB drives as long as the > cabling and jumpers are correct.
But it may not be able to boot it if it is the drive with /boot on it and /boot is past where the motherboard can see. I solved the problem by buying a Promise IDE-133 controller. It has its own bios for the drives. A good way to bypass flaky ide controllers. They are about $50 or so from Office Despot. They are near the hard drive. I seem to remember them in a Western Digital box.
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