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dekay23
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 Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:06 am Post subject: Not detecting ide drives? |
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Hi,
I have an AMD64, MSI K8 Neo motherboard, and two 80 Gig Harddrives (Western digital, Samsung). The first drive has an old installation of RedHat that I want to install Gentoo on. The second has Windows XP, which I boot by going into the BIOS boot menu and selecting it.
The problem, when I use the AMD64-Live-2004.2 none of my harddrives are seen. All I get is hdc which is the cdrom.
Slax live, Knoppix live, and RedHat 9.1 boot disk all see the drives no problems? In the log file I see a couple of lines about the two drives, but when I look in /dev/... there is only /dev/hdc. I tried looking in /dev/ide/...l but that just lead only to the cdrom.
What should I look for.?
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Exeel
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what type of hard drives are they? Are they just plain old Parrallel ATA, or are they sata or scsi or something?
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dekay23
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| Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:24 am Post subject: Type of hard drives |
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| Sorry yeah forgot, they are just plain parallel ATA... Nothing special... One thing the CDRom is attached as master on the second drive (the XP drive). |
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StinkingMonkey
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could make sure RAID is disabled in BIOS, try passing noraid option to kernel at boot
ie after livecd has loaded type in
gentoo noraid
mine didnt recognise HD's till i entered that
if your livecd boots up try having a look at dmesg see if theres any listing for your drives there.
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dekay23
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| Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 11:25 am Post subject: Known bug? |
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I will try the noraid boot. But apparently this is a known bug with the Promise ATA controller
The bug has been reported (number 36498).
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36498
By the way version 2004.1 works fine. |
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cyrillic
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 12:03 am Post subject: Re: Not detecting ide drives? |
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| dekay23 wrote: | | The problem, when I use the AMD64-Live-2004.2 none of my harddrives are seen. All I get is hdc which is the cdrom. |
The CD you are using has ide-disk compiled as a module. Your harddrives will be detected after you do this.
| Code: | | # modprobe ide-disk |
I guess the devs assumed everyone would be using SATA drives.  |
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dekay23
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| Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 4:06 pm Post subject: # modprobe ide-disk |
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This solved the problem, thanks..
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