Douglas Mayne wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:40:07 +0100, Ian Bell wrote:
>
> > I have an old Celeron PC based on an Intel 815 chipset on an ATX
> > motherboard. It has 2 IDE controller connectors. The primary one has a hard
> > drive and CD writer connected to it. They work fine and I can dual boot
> > salck and win98 from the hard drive and see the CD writer. The second IDE
> > controller has another hard drive on it. The controller is enabled in bios
> > and bios can see the drive. However, neither slack nor win98 can see this
> > drive. What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > The primary hard drive is hda and the cdwriter is hdb. Presumably the
> > secondary pair should be hdc and hdd respectively?
> Yes.
> >
> > Ian
> >
> Note: comment inline.
>
> It seems like you are doing things right. These type of things can get
> frustrating.
>

Apologies for posting via google but my ISP news server is having
problems.

> Did the second drive ever work or has this drive been recently
> added? What size is the new drive?

It works fine. I connectd it in the hda postion and loaded a zenwalker
on it OK.

>
> Things to check:
> 1. Drive spins up.
> 2. Drive is jumpered correctly.
> 3. Drive cable is known good.
> 4. Drive is recognized by the motherboard/controller. BIOS set for LBA
> mode.

Yes to all the above.

> 5. Drive is recognized by the kernel at boot.
>

NO. That's the first indication that something is wrong.

> The next thing to do is swap drive positions temporarily. One way to do
> this is to replace your existing hard disk (either hda or hdb) and boot
> with a rescue cd.
>

See above.

The only thing I can think of is the plug and play OS setting in the
BIOS. I'll try changing that.
Thanks for the input.

Ian