Hi,
I have an old i386DX and I want to install Linux on it.
Linux does not see the hard-disk Seagate ST 3630A of 630M.
I am using this computer on MSDOS.
ST 3630A is drive C:. On the same cable, as slave, I have the CD.
The jumpers are configurated at HDD as master with slave, at the CD as
slave.
Everything works fine in MSDOS except DOS can see only 500M.
The BIOS Setup detects exactly the number of heads and cilinders written
on the HDD. The BIOS is Award 1992.
The partitions are 300M for DOS and 300M ext2 and 30M swap (I used a
Linux fdisk). I think it was fdisk from a Debian distribution.Then I
gave up Debian because I had only the base and it was too much to
download X and applications.
When I tried to install a RedHat 5.2, the boot(install) floppy worked
and the kernel began to work. Among the messages it was one saying that
a HDD of 630M was detected.
In the second stage install(started from the CD) after I choosed the
language, I got the message "There is no HDD on your computer" and the
install stopped.
I tried also Slackware and it was the same thing. RedHat 6.0, the same.
I tried also the Debian (Ihave the boot, root and the base on the
HDD).Neither Debian see the HDD.
If MSDOS works, what more needs Linux to see the HDD?
Thanks,
Cristian
