The missing hd mystery

[Brian Kelsay]

I've worked on a lot of Dells here and usually they have the HDDs set to CS
for cable select.  I personally hate this.  I want to set something to
master or slave and know its going to work.  I don't know if they do this
because of the Phoenix BIOS they are so fond of using or the Western Digital
drives that are very common in their systems.

Anyway, check hardware, BIOS settings, then fdisk or other software.  Its
most likely a hardware problem.  I think this is what caused the
"accidental" wiping of Tom Margrave's hard drive.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Densmore [mailto:DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 8:17 AM
> To: 'Lowell'; 'kclug'
> Subject: RE: The missing hd mystery
> 
> 
> Well, without more information it is hard to answer. I have 
> found DiskDruid
> lacking in some areas. He should check: fdisk (less user 
> friendly, more
> stable - YMMV), the boot messages to ensure both disks are 
> recognized by
> RH7, his BIOS settings. PII 400MHz is middle aged!? Are we 
> getting overly
> power hungry or what? I run K6-2 400s and below (not that I 
> don't want a GHz
> CPU).
> 
> Hope this is useful,
> Brian
> 
> > 
> > Folks,
> > 	Not for myself, for a friend, who installed RH7
> > on a middle-aged Dell (PII 400mhz, that's all I know) w/
> > 2 hd's, and the installer only showed the master drive to
> > diskdruid.
> > 	Any similar experiences, suggestions, or comments?
> > 
> 
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