I have the disc,trouble is with the drive plugged in I can't even boot a floppy or CD. If I leave the drive unplugged and boot the WD floppy,then plug it in,it finds it and everything is fine according to the SW. I did noticethat the Maxtor drive says it is ATA133, and the WD is ATA100.
I think I may have to readjust the partitions on teh maxtor and go with that drive alone? Mike On Saturday 26 July 2003 04:02 pm, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > > I amtrying toinstall 1.4_rc4 off the install cd,I think I have now ruined > > 3 HD's. > > The machine is a Gateway 500S. With an intel 865G chipset. Original 1 HD > > 40G Maxtor Fireball 3, I added another WD400BB 40gdrive as slave. When > > the drive is new it will boot it up fine, I infact installed all of 1.4 > > all the way through the install using hdb1 as a /home onlydrive. Install > > went fine, but upon booting the first time the machine hangs. It will not > > boot again with the WD drive? No matter what I try the WD will not allow > > the machine to boot. I can boot into mynew gentoo system fine as long as > > I leave the WD drive unplugged. So I tried another out of the box. It > > boots the CD fine and ran fdisk /dev/hdb and partitioned it as hdb1 and > > made an ext3 out of it. I even mounted it and wrote to it using the > > CDbooted system. As soon as I boot again I'm back to the same problem. It > > will not boot with the WD drive. Anyone have any suggestions?? > > My first thought would be a motherboard issue. My 2nd thought would be > an issue with WD drives. WD has a drive testing program called Data > LifeGuard. Take a look around on their website > <http://support.wdc.com/download/> and see if you can find it. Most > likely, it will be a boot disk you can use to diagnose the drive and see > if there is any problems with it. I recently had an issue with a very > similar model WD drive. It would intermittently not get detected by the > BIOS. Even if I set it manually in the BIOS, the BIOS would not boot > from it. The odd thing is, if I booted with a Linux CD, the kernel > detected the drive and was able to use it just fine. This particular > drive demonstrated this behavior on 2 different motherboards. > Eventually, the BIOS wouldn't detect it at all, but the kernel still > could. I ended up mirroring the drive to another 40Gb from a rescue CD, > and I sent it in for warrantied replacement. -- Michael W. Holdeman Why keep payin g for windoze?? Powered by Gentoo Linux 1.2 www.gentoo.org Linux Kernel 2.4.22_rc2-gss lowlatency, preemptable Windows Apps thanks to Win4Lin 5.0 www.netraverse.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
