On Sunday 30 Mar 2003 7:16 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Sunday March 30 2003 11:03 am, todd slater wrote: > > So I got a new hard drive and thought I'd install 9.1 on it. The > > problem is, I can't get my bios to see is as either master or > > slave. I skipped the autodetection and was able to install 9.1 on > > it, but I guess bios doesn't see the drive still and it won't boot > > into it. I tried to create a boot floppy but that gives me an error > > and prompts for a system disk. > > You were able to do the 9.1 install because your bios can see the > drive you had the CD in, and Linux could see your new drive. BUT, > this still leaves you with your motherboard/bios not seein it. > > How big is the drive? .... and how old is your bios? It could be > that the bios doesn't recognize drives over a certain size. You can > get that info from the motherboard's manual or website. Until you get > bios to recognize it, you're sort'a SOL. The drive doesn't need to be > formatted first for this. > > If the bios can handle drives that size: Make certain the drive's > jumper is correctly (check again ;) set to master or slave, not cable > select. You can sometimes get away with not doin so, but often the > master drive must be on the ide cable's end connector, and slave > drive on the middle connector. If only one drive is on the cable, it > must be master, and the end connector should be used. Try a differnet > ide cable, reseat the connections. > > I've also seen some drives where there were more than one way to > set the jumper for master. I've also seen drives where the diagram > on the drive or it's instructions, didn't match the (number of) pins. > I had an IBM like that, had to go to IBM's website to get the correct > diagram.
IIRC Seagates don't use the same jumper scheme as most others. I think it has different settings for stand alone and master with slave, and I don't think it accepts the no jumper setup that many others do. Could be wrong, but definitely worth checking up. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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