At 6:02 PM +0100 8/18/06, Paul Smith wrote: >On 8/18/06, Ryan Enge <renge@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> > At boot time, my new BIOS is unable to detect 2 of my 3 IDE hard >> > disks. However, I can access to all of them from FC5. Is there >> > something that I can do to have the BIOS detecting all my IDE hard >> > disks? >> > >> I would check that you have the jumpers set correctly on the hard >> drives. I had an issue with a Western Digital drive that I had set to >> slave when it was actually the master and the BIOS would not pick it up. >> I am assuming these are PATA not SATA drives. > >Thanks, Ryan and Tony. If the hard drives were not correctly connected >I would not be able to boot in them, is not it? Right. But that doesn't say that that the drives are on the connections where the kernel says there are no drives. The drives are connected elsewhere, where the kernel reports them to be. Other connections may be unused. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
