Re: hard disk not recognized
it may be a stupid question but i have to ask did you happen to reformat the drive to use the linux filesystem(ext2fs?) or is it using a MS windows compadible file system ? i can't imaigne why a drive wouldnt be recognized if the filesystem was compadible. with the exception of a broken bios(which i've only seen once, long story im sure its not what your experiencing) nate On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: richar I found that I can get Linux to recognize my hard disk by unplugging it from richar the Promise Technology Ultra ATA/66 controller card and plugging directly richar into the motherboard. The only problem is now Windows can't see the disk! Is richar there anything I can do so that both OSes can see the disk? Thanks. richar richar Bob richar richar richar -- richar Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null richar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 9:32pm up 158 days, 9:39, 2 users, load average: 1.17, 1.15, 1.09
RE: hard disk not recognized
The disk has 3 partitions. One is for Windows, the other 2 are for Linux. The Linux part is formatted for linux and works fine as long as I don't use the controller card. I'm wondering if Linux just doesn't know about this kind of card? Bob -Original Message- From: aphro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 9:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org; recipient list not shown: ; Subject: Re: hard disk not recognized it may be a stupid question but i have to ask did you happen to reformat the drive to use the linux filesystem(ext2fs?) or is it using a MS windows compadible file system ? i can't imaigne why a drive wouldnt be recognized if the filesystem was compadible. with the exception of a broken bios(which i've only seen once, long story im sure its not what your experiencing) nate On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: richar I found that I can get Linux to recognize my hard disk by unplugging it from richar the Promise Technology Ultra ATA/66 controller card and plugging directly richar into the motherboard. The only problem is now Windows can't see the disk! Is richar there anything I can do so that both OSes can see the disk? Thanks. richar richar Bob richar richar richar -- richar Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null richar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 9:32pm up 158 days, 9:39, 2 users, load average: 1.17, 1.15, 1.09
RE: hard disk not recognized
dont think linux does, without drivers for it .. most of the DMA66 controllers have linux drivers, check the debian-user archives for some urls.. nate On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: richar The disk has 3 partitions. One is for Windows, the other 2 are for Linux. richar The Linux part is formatted for linux and works fine as long as I don't use richar the controller card. I'm wondering if Linux just doesn't know about this richar kind of card? Bob richar richar -Original Message- richar From: aphro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] richar Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 9:37 PM richar To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] richar Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org; recipient list not shown: ; richar Subject: Re: hard disk not recognized richar richar richar it may be a stupid question but i have to ask did you happen to reformat richar the drive to use the linux filesystem(ext2fs?) or is it using a MS windows richar compadible file system ? i can't imaigne why a drive wouldnt be richar recognized if the filesystem was compadible. with the exception of a richar broken bios(which i've only seen once, long story im sure its not what richar your experiencing) richar richar nate richar richar On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: richar richar richar I found that I can get Linux to recognize my hard disk by unplugging richar it from richar richar the Promise Technology Ultra ATA/66 controller card and plugging richar directly richar richar into the motherboard. The only problem is now Windows can't see the richar disk! Is richar richar there anything I can do so that both OSes can see the disk? Thanks. richar richar richar richar Bob richar richar richar richar richar richar -- richar richar Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe richar [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null richar richar richar richar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- richarVice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ richar Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ richarEverett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ richar Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ richar Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ richar -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- richar 9:32pm up 158 days, 9:39, 2 users, load average: 1.17, 1.15, 1.09 richar richar richar -- richar Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null richar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 8:04am up 158 days, 20:10, 1 user, load average: 1.19, 1.14, 1.17
Re: hard disk not recognized
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:44:21AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought a Dell Dimension XPS T600 with a Maxtor 13.6GB hard disk. I wanted to install Linux so I repartitioned the drive to leave 6GB free. Windows works fine on its 7GB. The Linux boot disk (I've tried both Debian and Red Hat) tells me I don't have a hard drive. I read that the boot partition needs to be in the first 8.4GB. The existing partition is only 7GB so I think that is OK. Can anyone tell me what I need to do? Thanks Bob The problem is that the BIOS only addresses up to the 1024th cylinder at boot time. The recommended way is to create a small partition (10-15MB) to hold your kernels and map files at the start of your disk. Then use the next 7Gb for Windows and the balance for you Linux partition. There's more information than you can shake a stick at in http://www.secretagent.com/doc/howto/mini/Large-Disk.txt or if you have another box already running Debian, the same document is in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/mini/Large-Disk.txt.gz Good luck. -- Regards, Paul
