Re: debian wheezy netinst questions
This situation gets funny, so anyone reading further is warned to be sitting on the floor or you'll likely get hurt falling off of your chairs. The talking arch linux disk and instructions for installing talking archlinux had changed but even with that I managed to get archlinux to partition and format the seagate baracooda 7200 1500GB drive I have. Since I didn't have the current talking arch disk and the brailled instructions I wrote no longer apply, I figure why not roll the dice and see if debian will thrash the drive like it did before. So I start over with a debian install and this time no disk thrashing and debian installed on the Seagate Baracooda 7200 1500GB drive with no problems. I find it funny when a competing Linux ends up doing a critical part of the job yet can't complete an installation and then the original desired Linux finally does install on the drive. Archlinux is a small operating system and I have many smaller sata drives I can and will install that system on at a later time since small systems work well on small drives. Larger systems need larger drives. Hardware eventually fails; software eventually works, no amount of band width can fix poor design Jude jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1207281058020.18...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
Re: debian wheezy netinst questions
Okay, I forgot to mention that archlinux has no trouble installing on that same sata controler and same baracooda drive. I had been told earlier today that Seagate did ship some problem baracooda drives out but wasn't told what the problem was with them. I'll see if I can get a replacement drive since this one has some warranty left. On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Bob Proulx wrote: Jude DaShiell wrote: Why won't debian wheezy netinst recognize my Seagate Baracooda 7200 1500gb hard drive automatically? Since automatic recognition fails, which if any driver is installed that I can select and get the drive partitioned and formatted and finish a debian installation? It seems very unusual that such a popular drive such as the Seagate Baracuda series would be a problem. I have several of those on my systems without trouble. More than likely if there is a problem it is in the SATA device controller on your motherboard. I would remove and reconnect all of the disk connections and verify that they are okay. A bad SATA cable connector has been the source of problems more than once on this mailing list. If your motherboard has multiple SATA controllers or connectors then I would try a different one. I would boot a live disk and then run 'lspci' and look to see what SATA controller is being used and then search for issues concerning it. Also during a live cd boot you should be able to query the drive and prove that it is working. Or not working. Because it is possible that you are simply suffering from a hardware problem and not a software problem. Bob Hardware eventually fails; software eventually works, no amount of band width can fix poor design Jude jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1207271805580.91...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
Re: debian wheezy netinst questions
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:35:29 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Why won't debian wheezy netinst recognize my Seagate Baracooda 7200 1500gb hard drive automatically? Because of any fancy disk layout is currently in place? Because of a BIOS setting (ide/sata/ahci/raid) making noise? Because of U/EFI present? A BIOS/UEFI bug? An unrecognized hard disk controller? Since automatic recognition fails, which if any driver is installed that I can select and get the drive partitioned and formatted and finish a debian installation? From the installer, you can jump to a debug console to discover why it fails to recognize the disk. Also, you can check if the disk if detected by loading any LiveCD of your liking. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jurlq0$tcf$9...@dough.gmane.org
debian wheezy netinst questions
Why won't debian wheezy netinst recognize my Seagate Baracooda 7200 1500gb hard drive automatically? Since automatic recognition fails, which if any driver is installed that I can select and get the drive partitioned and formatted and finish a debian installation? Hardware eventually fails; software eventually works, no amount of band width can fix poor design Jude jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.01.1207252030510.93...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg
Re: debian wheezy netinst questions
Jude DaShiell wrote: Why won't debian wheezy netinst recognize my Seagate Baracooda 7200 1500gb hard drive automatically? Since automatic recognition fails, which if any driver is installed that I can select and get the drive partitioned and formatted and finish a debian installation? It seems very unusual that such a popular drive such as the Seagate Baracuda series would be a problem. I have several of those on my systems without trouble. More than likely if there is a problem it is in the SATA device controller on your motherboard. I would remove and reconnect all of the disk connections and verify that they are okay. A bad SATA cable connector has been the source of problems more than once on this mailing list. If your motherboard has multiple SATA controllers or connectors then I would try a different one. I would boot a live disk and then run 'lspci' and look to see what SATA controller is being used and then search for issues concerning it. Also during a live cd boot you should be able to query the drive and prove that it is working. Or not working. Because it is possible that you are simply suffering from a hardware problem and not a software problem. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
