Re: [Sheflug] Disk Drive Problem

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Ian Wright wrote:

> This is the problem now, the BIOS won't recognise the drives any more. I've
> tried inputting the disk data - cylinders, segments etc, but the BIOS just
> won't accept the data. As the machines were working OK before I started
> trying to install Linux, there must be a way of making them see the drives
> again but I don't know how.

Try sticking them on the secondary channel of another machine (if you have
one spare) and see if a newer BIOS will recognise them. It is possible to
get unreadable disks by "normal" use, but it's usually fixable.
If you can get another machine to see the drives format them on that
machine and try them again.
I can't remember if IDE can hot plug or not, but I remember seeing a
couple of drives that would crash the firmware of a SCSI card unless you
added them after boot to the chain.


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