Re: [OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem (CLOSED)

2012-04-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:01:34 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: I finally fudged things. I set the bios so that it recognized the cdrom and installed Debian Linux. I then rebooted, F2ed to the bios and changed it so that it could find the hard drive. That

Re: Re: [OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem (CLOSED)

2012-04-10 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: El 2012-04-08 a las 20:26 -0700, Gary Roach escribió: (resending to the list) On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:41:08 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I have an older computer that is still completely

Re: [OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem (CLOSED)

2012-04-09 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-04-08 a las 20:26 -0700, Gary Roach escribió: (resending to the list) On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:41:08 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am switching over to Linux from win2k. The

Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem

2012-04-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 04/07/12 16:41, Gary Roach wrote: If the BOIS ATA/IDE Configuration is set to Extended, the bios finds my CDROM drive but not the hard drive. If the configuration is set to Legacy the bios finds the hard drive but not my CDROM drive. The hard drive is on IDE -1 as master (or stand alone,

Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem

2012-04-08 Thread Keith
On 08/04/12 00:41, Gary Roach wrote: Swapping cables didn't help. The two units are mounted too far apart to make one master and the other slave on the same IDE port. I've run out of ideas. Anyone else have any? Perhaps a longer cable.. (Upto 1 meter long, I think; may also be joined

[OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem

2012-04-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:41:08 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am switching over to Linux from win2k. The system has had a glitch for a long time in that it fails to boot the first time I try. The reason is that it can't find the

Re: Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem

2012-04-08 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 08/04/12 09:41, Gary Roach wrote: I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am switching over to Linux from win2k. The system has had a glitch for a long time in that it fails to boot the first time I try. The

Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem

2012-04-08 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/04/12 01:40, Gary Roach wrote: On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 08/04/12 09:41, Gary Roach wrote: snipped There seems to be some confusion here. I still have win2k on the machine. No confusion here (so far). Hence my request. I suspected you still had W2K

Re: [OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem

2012-04-08 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:41:08 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am switching over to Linux from win2k. The system has had a glitch for a long time in that it fails to boot the first time I

ATA/IDE hard drive problem

2012-04-07 Thread Gary Roach
I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am switching over to Linux from win2k. The system has had a glitch for a long time in that it fails to boot the first time I try. The reason is that it can't find the WD600BB, 60 GB hard drive. A second try usually fixed the

Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem

2012-04-07 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 08/04/12 09:41, Gary Roach wrote: I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am switching over to Linux from win2k. The system has had a glitch for a long time in that it fails to boot the first time I try. The reason is that it can't find the WD600BB, 60 GB hard