On Sunday March 30 2003 11:03 am, todd slater wrote:
> So I got a new hard drive and thought I'd install 9.1 on it. The
> problem is, I can't get my bios to see is as either master or
> slave. I skipped the autodetection and was able to install 9.1 on
> it, but I guess bios doesn't see the drive still and it won't boot
> into it. I tried to create a boot floppy but that gives me an error
> and prompts for a system disk.
You were able to do the 9.1 install because your bios can see the
drive you had the CD in, and Linux could see your new drive. BUT,
this still leaves you with your motherboard/bios not seein it.
How big is the drive? .... and how old is your bios? It could be
that the bios doesn't recognize drives over a certain size. You can
get that info from the motherboard's manual or website. Until you get
bios to recognize it, you're sort'a SOL. The drive doesn't need to be
formatted first for this.
If the bios can handle drives that size: Make certain the drive's
jumper is correctly (check again ;) set to master or slave, not cable
select. You can sometimes get away with not doin so, but often the
master drive must be on the ide cable's end connector, and slave
drive on the middle connector. If only one drive is on the cable, it
must be master, and the end connector should be used. Try a differnet
ide cable, reseat the connections.
I've also seen some drives where there were more than one way to
set the jumper for master. I've also seen drives where the diagram
on the drive or it's instructions, didn't match the (number of) pins.
I had an IBM like that, had to go to IBM's website to get the correct
diagram.
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Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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