Paul Smith wrote: > On 8/18/06, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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? >> >>>> > > OK, the result of 'fdisk -l' is: > > # /sbin/fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 3187 25599546 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hda2 3188 3200 104422+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 3201 14593 91514272+ 8e Linux LVM > > Disk /dev/hdb: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdb1 * 1 764 6136798+ 83 Linux > /dev/hdb2 765 9964 73899000 5 Extended > /dev/hdb5 765 904 1124518+ 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > /dev/hdb6 905 9964 72774418+ 83 Linux > > Disk /dev/hde: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hde1 * 1 10000 80324968+ 83 Linux > /dev/hde2 10001 19457 75963352+ 8e Linux LVM > >From the looks of things, you have one drive as master and one drive as slave on the first IDE interface, no hard drives on the second IDE interface, and one drive as master on the third IDE interface. If the BIOS is set to autodetect drives on the second IDE interface, it is going to generate the messages you are getting. It is not an error, or the BIOS not seeing the drive. It is just the BIOS telling you that it did not find any hard drive when it checked. You could probably speed up system boot by disabling the check in the BIOS. You could also set the drive types for the other drives, so the BIOS does not have to check each time it boots. This is up to you. You get slightly faster boots, but you will have to go into the BIOS and change things if you change drives. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
