On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 08:45:27 -0500, you wrote: >I tried to install Linux MDK 7.1 on a Gateway 2000 with a 900 MHz >Athlon. The Bios version for the Gateway is 0AA SNP05. At boot up time >the message from the Hard Disk is: > IBM DTLA-307045 Ultra DMA5 > >BTW, this is a 45 GB drive. During the installation process everything >goes fine until its time to set up the partitions then I get a message >stating that there are no valid hard drives in my machine. I've >installed MDK 7.1 on computers having UDMA Harddrives and assus >motherboards having UDMA 66 hardware built in and everything works >fine. So I'm surprised things don't work on the Gatewaye 2000. > >I've tried changing BIOS settings but nothing seemed to work. I'm also >unsure exactly what UDMA 5 is. Has anybody seen this before? Also we >tried installing windoze 2k and had basically the same problem. >However, windoze 98 installs and works fine. Since win 2k and linux are >BIOSless OS's and win 98 uses hardware BIOSes I'm guessing this is a >BIOS issue with the harddrive but I don't know what to do besides change >to a different harddrive. > >Does anybody have any suggestions? UDMA 5 is ATA/100. You need to reset the drive to UDMA 4 (ATA/66), which usually is done through the drive manufacturer's proprietary software. Or perhaps you have a setting in the bios to make UDMA 4 the default. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
