Not all IDE hard disks are detected by my BIOS
Ryan Enge
renge at uvic.ca
Fri Aug 18 16:06:00 UTC 2006
Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
>
> At boot time, my new BIOS is unable to detect 2 of my 3 IDE hard
> disks. However, I can access to all of them from FC5. Is there
> something that I can do to have the BIOS detecting all my IDE hard
> disks?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul
>
I would check that you have the jumpers set correctly on the hard
drives. I had an issue with a Western Digital drive that I had set to
slave when it was actually the master and the BIOS would not pick it up.
I am assuming these are PATA not SATA drives.
Ryan Enge
System Administrator
University of Victoria
Room: CLE D046 Phone: 472-5447
Email: renge at uvic.ca
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