I will give that a try. Somebody in the Mint forum told me to run Mint 7 instead. I sounds like there's a bug in the installer. I also tried Ubuntu and it could not see the drive either. I really think its a BIOS issue, and there's no option to turn off raid, which I think is causing the problem.
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Carlos Konstanski < ckonstan...@pippiandcarlos.com> wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote: > > > Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:17:04 -0800 > > From: Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. <w...@pacifier.com> > > Reply-To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > > <plug@lists.pdxlinux.org> > > To: "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" > > <plug@lists.pdxlinux.org> > > Subject: Re: [PLUG] Can't see second hard drive for Linux Mint install > > > > David Kaplan wrote: > >> I've been trying to install Linux Mint 8 on a friends Dell Dimension > 8400 > >> desktop. It has a 250gb hdd. as sata 0 and the new 320gb hdd is set at > sata > >> 1. The BIOS sees both hdds but the Mint installer only sees the first > 250gb > >> hdd. Someone told me to turn off the raid setting but there is not way > to > >> turn it off in the BIOS. The Mint Forum told me to run on the live CD: > >> > >> $ sudo apt-get remove dmraid > >> > >> sounded like a good idea, but after running it and logging back in to > the > >> live CD nothing happened. The installer will only see the first 250gb > hdd. > >> > >> Any other ideas? > >> > > Try Slackware? ;-) > > Wayne > > But seriously, try booting with Knoppix or Finnix. If either of these > can see the HDD, then Mint is the problem. But if they cannot, then > it's a BIOS-level issue. > > Carlos > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
