Tom Diehl on 29 Dec 2003 13:58:02 -0000


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[PLUG] Re: linux hard drive troubles


On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Jesse Huestis wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Jeff has some very good advice.
> 
> Can you see the drive correctly in the systems BIOS?
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> I am wondering, as I have had the same problem with some older machines 
> and the ATA 133 drives, do the other *FDISK programs see the drive 
> correctly even if teh BIOS does not?

You should be able to set the bios to type none and linux should detect it
properly. Assuming you are not trying to boot from the thing.

HTH,

............Tom
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