Matt McKenzie wrote: > Hello, > > Did you try looking under every "nook and cranny" in the BIOS? In some > cases, options for this kind of thing might not be in a place that is > necessarily obvious. It could be under some option for the hard drives, to > use them in legacy IDE mode, SATA mode, or RAID mode, or something along > those lines. > > Also agree with trying another distro live CD, see if they can see the 2nd > drive. > > You might also want to try Ultimate Boot CD, and run a hd diagnostic on the > 2nd drive. > > ---------- > Matt M. > LinuxKnight > > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 10:37 AM, David Kaplan <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I've been trying to install Linux Mint 8 on a friends Dell Dimension 8400 >> desktop. It has a 250gb hdd. as sata 0 and the new 320gb hdd is set at sata >> 1. The BIOS sees both hdds but the Mint installer only sees the first 250gb >> hdd. Someone told me to turn off the raid setting but there is not way to >> turn it off in the BIOS. The Mint Forum told me to run on the live CD: >> >> $ sudo apt-get remove dmraid >> >> sounded like a good idea, but after running it and logging back in to the >> live CD nothing happened. The installer will only see the first 250gb hdd. >> >> Any other ideas? >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> >> > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim8400/en/index.htm
I just looked at the owners manual pdf file from the above link, and I think this is what you might need to do: Disable RAID-Enabled Mode 1 Turn on (or restart) your computer. 2 When the blue DELLTM logo appears, press <F2> immediately. 3 Enter system setup. 4 Use the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight Drives, and press <Enter>. 5 Use the up- and down-arrow keys to highlight Drive Controller, and press <Enter>. 6 Use the left- and right-arrow keys to highlight Drive Controller RAID Autodetect/AHCI, (or possibly RAID Autodetect/ATA), press <Enter>, and then press <Esc>. 7 Use the left- and right-arrow keys to highlight Save/Exit, and press <Enter> to exit system setup and resume the boot process. If not the owners manual pdf that I linked should help. Good luck! _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
