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