Sasha: Yes, the BIOS sees each drive, listing the drive Model Number, size, all that information accurately. If I boot with a live cd, and run gparted, gparted will show the geometry etc.. All the data about the hard drive, plus the partitions currently on the drive, on each drive. I have just one drive in right now, want to get one going at a time, and I will recheck the cable connections when I am back at my home desk. The cables are all new and have all worked fine until a week or two ago, when I decided to 'improve' things, causing my current mess.
Thanks for the reminders. I am going to try Nicholas' hdparm -I suggestion too, and then report on that response. >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Sasha Pachev >Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 2:45 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Mysterious Hard Drive > >Does BIOS see the drive at all or is there other evidence that >it has been properly connected and powered and that your cable is OK? > >I do not think I ever connected an HDD without either >forgetting to power it, or not pushing the cable connectors in >all the way the first time around. > >-- >Sasha Pachev >AskSasha Linux Consulting >http://asksasha.com > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
